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 Wembley]
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Number of Families Attended.
By full-time personnel. | By personnel on approved panel. | Economic circumstances scale of families. | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fulltime | Part-time | Fulltime | Part-time | Free | 10/- | 20/- | 30/- | 40/- | 60/- | 70/- | 84/- |
per week | |||||||||||
96 | 3 | 22 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 18 |
With effect from 5/7/48 (M.C.C. assessment) | |||||||||||
48 | |||||||||||
99 | 24 | 123 |
Domiciliary Nursing.
Mothers referred for treatment to the Wembley and Kings
bury Nursing Associations: 2.
Expectant and Nursing mothers | Children under 5 years. | |
---|---|---|
Numbers who received treatment | 607 | 511 |
Numbers of treatments:— | ||
(a) Fillings:— | ||
(i) in temporary teeth | — | 1,280 |
(ii) in permanent teeth | 1,961 | — |
(b) Number of teeth extracted | 1,170 | 499 |
(c) Number of administrations of general anaesthesia (nitrous oxide) | 233 | 206 |
(d) Number of persons supplied with dentures | 135 | - |
(e) Number of dentures supplied | 209 | — |
Total attendances at Dental Clinics last live years:— | ||
Children. | Mothers. | |
1944 | 451 | 882 |
1945 | 621 | 1,547 |
1946 | 1,080 | 2,942 |
1947 | 1,326 | 2,680 |
1948 | 1,608 | 2,532 |