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Tower Hamlets 1967

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tower Hamlets, London Borough]

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Bromley CIinic
Coventry Cross - installation of new mobile dental unit, cuspirator, operating light
and X-ray machine, Redecoration throughout and the provision of modern sink unit, dental
cabinets, etc.
Island Clinic
Roserton Street - installation of X-ray machine, aspirator and dental cabinets, etc.
Ida Samuel Clinic
Underwood Road - installation of aspirators in both surgeries, Redecoration throughout
and the provision of modern sink units, dental cabinets, etc.
Old Ford CIinic
Ruston Street - installation of aspirator and X-ray machine in Surgery 1 and the
provision of acompletely new surgery 2, with mobile dental unit, cuspirator and operating
light. Redecorating throughout and the provision of modern sink units, dental cabinets,
etc.
PruneI la Clinic
Henriques Street - installation of modern dental unit, aspirator and X-ray machine
Redecoration throughout and the provision of modern sink unit, dental cabinets, etc.
Wellington Way Clinic
Bow - movement of dental surgery to a new and more appropriately sized room and
installation of modern dental unit, aspirator and X-ray machine Redecoration throughout
and the provision of built-in sink units, dental cabinets, etc.
In Bromley, Ida Samuel, Old Ford, Prunella and Wellington Way, the waiting rooms
were decorated and now only await the provision of new waiting room furniture in 1968.
It is hoped that the remaining redecoration will be carried out in 1968, together with
the replacement of the remaining pre-war dental units and the provision of X-ray developing
machines and other necessary apparatus
The two-surgery dental suite being built at Leopold Street for handicapped and
"difficult" children was still under construction at the end of the year, but should be
open for treatment by the summer of 1968,
During 1968, it is anticipated that complete dental modernisation and rebuilding
will have been obtained throughout the Borough.
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