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Shoreditch 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table III.
Tolal attendances given here include Tables I and II.
Note on " Other Operations."
The column for "other operations" includes the surgical operations given in previous reports.
Operations include the following :—(a) Children: dealing with abscesses without extraction ;
division of labial frena; (b) Adults: socket syringing after treatment following difficult
septic extraction; curetting of sockets; treatment of epulus; division of fibrous bands,
treatment of cysts, removal of sequestra.
Growth of Hospital.
Until last year a table showing comparative figures for the attendances of
different classes of patients was given in respect of the period from the opening of the institution.

Table: Classifications naturally vary according to the particular scheme adopted, and it is felt that a more accurate method of comparison will be obtained by commencing with the year 1933 and giving the figures for subsequent years; this period is marked by a more or less uniform system of classification.

Classifications naturally vary according to the particular scheme adopted, and it is felt that a more accurate method of comparison will be obtained by commencing with the year 1933 and giving the figures for subsequent years; this period is marked by a more or less uniform system of classification.

1933.1934.1935.1936.
No. of children's visits8498578301,252
No. of adults' visits14,6854,9715,1836,009
No. of maternity cases visits1,2871,5451,3251,365
No. of dentures fitted509552622670
No. of fillings492566695965

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* Including maternity cases.
Anæsthetics.
During the year 84 local anaesthetics and 1,537 general anaesthetics were
administered. The preceding table shows that the number of local anaesthetics
each year is always below 200. The number of general anaesthetics increased from
894 in 1933 to 1,537 in 1936. Actually the ratio which these figures for general
anaesthetics bear to the total for all anaesthetics each year was as follows:—
1933 84.5 per cent.
1934 85.7
1935 91.3
1936 94.8
These figures indicate the reliance which is placed upon a general anæsthetic
for the purposes of extractions performed in a district like Shoreditch. In other
words, they indicate that most of the mouths upon which extractions have to be
carried out show some degree of sepsis.