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Puerperal Pyrexia.
Forty-four cases of puerperal pyrexia were notified during the
year.
Maternity Mortality.
There were no maternal deaths of Leyton residents during the
year.
Dental Treatment.
Report by the Area Dental Officer (Mr. A. E. Hall).
Inspection and treatment was given to all expectant and
nursing mothers and pre-school children referred to the dental
officers by medical officers at the three local authority clinics, and
many pre-school children, who had been treated in the past, were
brought back for re-inspection and treatment if necessary.
The oral hygienist (Miss Watts) saw many of these mothers for
prophylactic work, and gave talks on dental hygiene. The longterm
value of this aspect of dentistry cannot be easily estimated,
but there can be no doubt that an educational service of this kind
is bound to do much to establish the habit of regular care of the
teeth, coupled with periodical visits to the dentist for inspection,
instead of the old method of waiting for pain to announce the onset
of trouble. Many teeth, which could not be filled due to advanced
decay in the mouths of young children, were 6aved temporarily by
the application of silver nitrate, thus avoiding extraction and
eliminating one predisposing cause of irregularity in the second
dentition.