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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Bexley 1945

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bexley]

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(h) Dental Clinic
No. referred to dental clinic by M.O.'s428386469415426278346
No. found to be in need of treatment422386350375318278346
No. who received treatment394341292375318276331
No. made dentally fit215315100202146229298
Number of treatments— (a) Fillings :
(1) In temporary teeth12122222113626016475
(2) In permanent teeth114212192204452409537
(b) Teeth extracted16331658930123314681064857
(c) Administration of general anaesthesia381209119159216120102
(d) Local anaesthesia67866394118140139
Patients supplied with dentures39675258706784
Dentures supplied7310295103127118129
No. of scalings and gum treatment——48136477342439

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The number of dental sessions per week was increased
to three in 1944 and the figures show a policy of
conservation of teeth by the greater number of fillings
and the reduction of extractions.
(ii) Institutional Provision for Mothers.
(a) Maternity Home.
Since 1939 the staff has been on a 96 hour fortnight
and despite all the difficulties of air raids the Home has
carried on and now admits and deals with abnormal
cases in view of the difficulties in obtaining admission
for these cases to London Hospitals. Increased staff has
been difficult to recruit but not until 1945 has the
shortage been felt. The Home has continued as a
training school for the State Ceritfied Midwives Part II
examination.
Priority admission is given to primiparae, previous
or expected abnormal cases, cases from overcrowded
homes and unmarried mothers.
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