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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
Leyton 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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the provision of dentures on terms specified by the Council. As a
result the names of 7 local dental practitioners were placed on the
approved list.
During the past five years the number of expectant mothers
and children under five years of age who have received dental
treatment in connection with the Council's scheme for maternity
and child welfare has been as follows :—•
1929 140
1930 207
1931 265
1932 300
1933 292
The record of such treatment undertaken during the year 1933 is as follows :—
| Espectant Mothers | Children. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Patients treated | 87 | 205 | |
| Attendances | 134 | 233 | |
| Extractions | 290 | 276 | |
| Fillings | 16 | 54 | |
| Other dental operations | 19 | 24 | |
| Ansesthetics— General | 62 | 11 | |
| Local | 7 | 145 | |
| Dentures supplied— Full upper and partial lower | 1 | — | |
| Examinations. | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary | 55 | 80 | 91 | 80 |
| Re-examinations | 83 | 126 | 140 | 165 |
| Total | 138 | 206 | 231 | 245 |
| Treatment. | ||||
| Number attending for | 56 | 126 | 115 | 129 |
| Attendances made for | 337 | 474 | 569 | 448 |
| Total | 393 | 600 | 684 | 577 |