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 Leyton]
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It is gratifying to find mothers bringing their children for treatment who were
themselves treated at the Council's clinics in years past.
Figures published by the Minister of Education in "The Health of the School Child"
for 1958 and 1959 and quoted later in this report under the School section show that
the average number of decayed, missing or filled teeth per school entrant at 5 years
of age is 5.7 that is, over a quarter of its total temporary dentition has been affected
by dental disease in three years (2.5).
This emphasises, as nothing else could, the need for very early and very frequent
(not longer than three monthly) examinations if the temporary teeth are to function as
they should do until the eruption of the permanent teeth.
Expectant Mothers | Nursing Mothers | Children under school age | |
---|---|---|---|
Extractions | |||
(a) Permanent teeth | 96 | - | |
(b) Temporary teeth | - | - | 267 |
Fillings | |||
(a) Permanent teeth | 68 | 119 | - |
(b) Temporary teeth | - | - | 514 |
Inlays provided | - | - | - |
Crowns provided | - | - | - |
Anaesthetics administered | |||
(a) Local | 27 | 69 | 3 |
(b) General | |||
(i) by Medical Officers on County Staff | - | - | |
(ii) by Others | 20 | 21 | 125 |
(a) Scaling | 24 | 40 | 7 |
(b) Prolonged scaling and gum treatment | 22 | 15 | 1 |
Silver nitrate treatment | - | - | 275 |
Dressings | 46 | 124 | 189 |
X-ray examinations | 4 | 12 | 2 |
Dentures provided | |||
(a) Full | - | 15 | - |
(b) Partial | 2 | 15 | - |
Dentures repaired | - | - | - |
Dentures remade | |||
(a) Full | - | - | _ |
(b) Partial | - | - | - |
Orthodontic appliances (a) Fixed | |||
(b) Movable | - | - | - |
Prophylactic treatment and other operations Polishing | 2 | - | 5 |
Number of treatments (scaling and prophylactic carried out by Oral Hygienists) | 47 | 50 | 13 |
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