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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
Bromley 1942
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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| (a) Permanent Teeth | 667 | 1411 |
| (b) Temporary Teeth | 2407 | 1899 |
| Total | 3074 | 3310 |
| 8. Administration of General Anaesthetics | 1212 | 1123 |
| 9. Other operations—individual cases treated | 701 | |
| (a) Orthodontic cases (i) completed | 31 | |
| (ii) under treatment | 40 | |
| (b) Crowns and Inlays | 14 | |
| (c) Space retaining appliances | 4 | |
| (d) Scaling and Gum treatment | 503 | |
| (e) Temporary Teeth | 252 | |
| Total | 701 | 844 |
SECTION C.
Infectious Disease.
The following is a summary of infectious disease returns from Head Teachers during 1942:—
| Diphtheria | 10 |
| Scarlet Fever | 36 |
| Measles | 74 |
| German Measles | 4 |
| Whooping Cough | 24 |
| Mumps | 290 |
| Chicken Pox | 169 |
| Other | 12 |
The time is long overdue when Head Teachers might
be relieved of making these returns as far as notifiable
infectious disease is concerned. The returns never agree
with the actual figures of notifications received by the
Medical Officer of Health from doctors, and cannot he
expected to do so, and in any case, all cases and contacts
of notifiable disease affecting schools are notified to Head
Teachers by the Department. The routine of making
these returns was probably imposed as a duty in order
to disclose the unnotified case, but we have no instance
in the records over a long period of years of such cases
being disclosed and thus the routine makes no tangible
contribution towards the control of infectious disease.