Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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conclusion of school sessions, therefore the number of sessions
shewn as having been wholly devoted to this scheme, appears very
small. A number of cases were treated at the Borough Hospital
and at Larchfield Sanatorium, and it is proposed in the present
year to extend this to the Cheam Sanatorium.
1 Dental Clinic—Tuberculous Patients :
Number of cases referred for examination 47
,, „ treated 41
,, treatment sessions 5
,, attendances 65
Administrations of general anaesthetics 4
Extractions 104
Fillings 30
Scalings 7
Dressings 16
Denture Dressings 7
Dentures supplied 2
2 Borough Hospital, Waddon—Tuberculous Patients :
Number of visits 15
,, cases—new 10
„ —okl 7
— 17
Administrations of nitrous oxide 2
Extractions 10
Fillings 6
Dressings 15
,, (Denture) 5
Dentures supplied 4
3 Larchfield—Tuberculous Patients :
Number of visits 1
,, cases 2
Administrations of nitrous oxide 2
Extractions 10
Dentures supplied 1
Repair to denture 1
Crippling Defects and Orthopaedics.
Three clinics dealing with various types of crippling defects
are conducted in a room allotted for the purpose at Welcome Hall,
Scarbrook Hill :—
(a) Spinal Remedial Class, in which children with various
degrees of spinal curvature receive corrective exercises and treatment
at the hands of Miss Appleton, the organiser of physical
training, under the general supervision of a medical officer who
attends at regular intervals to ascertain the progress made in each