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Summary of Work carried out at Dental Clinic, 10, John Street, Holborn, on Tuesday
Erenings, during 1929.
Number of sessions held 47
Number of patients' attendances 240
Number of fillings 21
Number of scalings 3
Without anæsthetic None
Number of With local anesthetic 16
extraction cases With gas 33
Number of teeth extracted 201
Number of dentures (including repairs) 29
Number of dressings 10
Number for advice 50
Number of denture visits 71
Number of new patients 41
Cancer.
During the year 1929, 01 deaths were recorded as due to Cancer in comparison
with 60 in the previous year. The deaths in 1929 were equal to a rate of 1.58 per
thousand, the corresponding rate in 1928 being 1.08 per thousand. In the year
1909 the death rate from Cancer in the Borough was only 0.95, the decennial
average rate was 1.20 for the ten years, 1909-1918, and 1.44 for the ten vears.
1919-1928.
It will be seen that the death rate from Cancer in the Borough in 1929 was
lower than in the previous year, being 1.58 per thousand in comparison with 1.68 per
thousand. The rate, however, for one year in districts of comparatively small populations
does not furnish a reliable indication of the prevalence of a particular disease. The decennial
rates which afford much more reliable indication of the seriousness of Cancer show that in the
past 20 years there has apparently been a marked increase in the death rate from this disease,
for while the decimal average for the ten years, 1909-1918, was 120, the corresponding rate for
the ten years, 1919-1928, was 144. Some part of this increase may reasonably be attributed
to improved facilities for diagnosis. The figures indicate the high mortality from malignant
diseases.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Notification of Births.
During the year 256 births were registered as occurring in the Borough,
During the same period 227 notifications of births occurring in the Borough were
received. Of these, 215 were from doctors and midwives, 12 from parents.
The mothers were attended at their confinement by:—
Private Doctors 36
Private Midwives 46
Out-patient Midwifery Departments of General Hospitals and
Institutions:—
Externs and others 59
Midwives.—University College Hospital 24
Middlesex Hospital 15
Other Institutions 8
Training Institution for Midwives, Myddelton
Square 39
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Four of these notifications related to stillbirths.