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Willesden 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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| Disease | Number in Hospital on December 31st, 1947 | Admitted from January 1st, 1948, to July 4th, 1948 | Total under Treatment | Died | Mortality per cent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | 1 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Diphtheria | 2 | 12 | 14 | 1 | 7.1 |
| Enteric Fever | 2 | — | 2 | — | — |
| Erysipelas | 2 | 13 | 15 | — | — |
| Measles | 6 | 95 | 101 | — | — |
| Puerperal Infections | 1 | 3 | 4 | — | — |
| Scarlet Fever | 26 | 120 | 146 | 1 | 2.5 |
| Whooping Cough | 2 | 37 | 39 | — | — |
| Poliomyelitis | 7 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 1.8 |
| Other Diseases | 18 | 144 | 162 | — | — |
| Marasmus | 5 | 1 | 6 | — | — |
| Tonsil and Adenoid cases | - | 18 | 18 | — | — |
| Totals | 72 | 447 | 519 | 5 | — |
THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT
for the
YEAR 1948
on
DENTAL INSPECTION AND TREATMENT
By E. A. JENNINGS, L.D.S., R.C.S.Eng.
Divisional Dental Officer.
I have the privilege to submit my Thirty-first Annual Report.
As commented upon in many previous Annual Reports, the dental service continued to be handicapped
by the same problem of shortage of accommodation and operating staff.
The Year's Work:
From the staff of four dental officers, one resigned and left the public service on June 30th. For the
remaining six months of the year it was only possible to fill the vacancy for five weeks with the services of a
locum tenens. However, Willesden must be considered fortunate to have retained most of its staff in view of
the exodus which is so marked a feature of local authorities throughout the country since the introduction of
the National Health Service.
The total number of sessions recorded by the staff is as follows:
Treatment Sessions allocated to School Health Service 1,349
Routine Inspection Sessions allocated to School Health Service 101
Treatment Sessions allocated to Maternity and Child Welfare 350
Sessions allocated to administration 44
Total 1,844
Included in the above total are 171 sessions attended by the Anæsthetist.
Sessions lost on account of sickness = 46.
Sessions allocated for family bereavement = 10.
The School Health Service:
Routine.—8,459 children, or 38.4 per cent out of a total school population of approximately 22,000,
were inspected at the schools. 101 visits were made by the dental officers, and 84 inspections per session were
averaged. 5,461, or 64.5 per cent, were found defective and referred for treatment.
Complete recording of all defects found was carried out at the time of inspection.
The total number of parents attending the routine inspections was 3,235, or 38 per cent.
Specials.—2,946 children attended the centres for inspection, an increase of 596 over last year's
equivalent, but of these 259 had no defect.
Included in this number are many children who attended for advice between periods of their routine
inspections and treatments, and were not all cases of neglect as is usually surmised.