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MUNICIPAL DENTAL SERVICE.
Mr.L.W.Elmer, L.D.S . senior Dental Surgeon reports: -
This service was commenced in April and during the period from
that date to the end of 1944, 143 patients received treatment.
Treatment is available to residents of the Borough. The
scale of fees is based cn the National Health Insurance Dental
Scale. Actual fees charged to patients are reduced by assessment
to persons unable to pay the full fee.
633 appointments were made, and in spite of fairly continuous
enemy action, 558 of them were kept.
During the above period 135 fillings were inserted and 67
sealings, 71 dressings and 266 extractions were carried out.
General anaesthetics were administered on 58 occasions, local
anaesthetics on 54.
33 impressions were taken, 24 bites and 23 "try-ins'.
26 dentures were fitted and 5 repaired.
All Dental Surgeons in the Borough were invited to participate
in the scheme and during the period under review, sufficient
volunteers were forthcoming to carry out all the treatment
required.
The period during which the scheme has beem in operation has
been so abnormal and short, that it may be unwise to prophesy
concerning its future, but I believe it is justifiable to
envisage, with the return of more normal conditions, a considerable
expansion of its scope and usefulness.
ASSISTANCE AT E.M.S. HOSPITALS.
(i.e. Connaught Hospital, Whipps Cross Hospital
and Hermon Hill Hospital)
AND DISTRICT NURSING.
Personnel of the Civil Defence Casualty Service helped
during a total cf just over 3,000 hours.
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