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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

Shoreditch 1927

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: TABLE II.— INSPECTION AND TREATMENT OF ADULTS.

TABLE II.— INSPECTION AND TREATMENT OF ADULTS.

Number of patients examined.Number of patients treatedNumber of extractions.Number of Administrations of Aræsthetic.Number of fillings, including root fillings.Number of scalings.Number of other operations.Number of dentures fitted.Number of repairs to dentures.Number of crowns.Number of visits.
Local.General.
Maternity cases—
Women4963561240211665829124375...627
Unmarried girls (16-20)290185647288432943136...340
Men53435411132241.........66
Tuberculosis cases-3432356464690542253115397
Total including children, Table I161111153398117600213642216116...1929

Table: TABLE III.

TABLE III.

Total attendances.No. of M. & C. W. cases.Anaesthetic Sessions attendances.
Monday evening4449676
Tuesday afternoon39717049
Thursday morning563357387
Friday afternoon29315417
Friday evening3178057
Total2014857586

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These figures are evidence of the extensive and useful work that is being done at
the Hospital, and in view of the fact that most disease and chronic ill-health is caused
in the first instance by neglect of the care of the teeth, this work should in time
contribute appreciably towards improving the health of the Borough.
So important is the Hospital that it is greatly to be hoped that it will before
long be open as a full-time department.
SANITARY WORK.
Intimations as to insanitary conditions were served in respect to 5,720 premises.
In 505 they were dealt with by Inspector Wright, in 528 by Inspector Chapman,