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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
Wood Green 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wood Green]
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The following is a record of the work done during the year
| New patients treated | 155 |
| Attendances made | 516 |
| Extractions (with local anaesthetic) | 15 |
| (with gas) | 232 |
| Fillings | 93 |
| Scalings, etc. | 264 |
| Advice only | 83 |
| Dentures provided | 29 |
Light Treatment.
By arrangement with the Middlesex County Council, mothers
and children are sent, as occasion arises, to the North Middlesex
County Hospital for artificial sunligiht treatment.
Home Visiting.
During the year the Health Visitors made a total of 7,212
visits. 2,900 of these visits were to babies under one year of age,
3,885 to children of from 1 to 5 years of age, and 427 were antenatal
visits to expectant mothers.
Free Food.
Free food, consisting mostly of dried milk or cod liver oil and
malt, were issued during the year to necessitous expectant and
nursing mothers attending the Centres, at a cost of £152 15s. Od.
Cows' milk was issued similarly at a cost of £145 15s. 9d. Free
dinners were also supplied to necessitous mothers at the Feeding
Centre in White Hart-lane at a cost of £1 9s. 6d.
Children and Young Persons Acts, 1908 to 1932.
The Health Visitors have continued to act as Infant Life Protection
Visitors during the year. The numbers of foster-mothers
and foster-children on the register at the end of the year were
18 and 19 respectively.