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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

Walthamstow 1960

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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59
STATISTICAL SUMMARY
Section 21
Health Service Clinics
Low Hall Lane, E. 17. (Opened in 1929)
Higham Hill Priory Court, E. 17. (Opened in 1959)
Silverdale Road, Highams Park, E. 4. (Adapted for Clinic purposes
1948)
West Avenue, E. 17. (Opened as Health Services Clinic 1949)

Table: General Dental Service

General Dental Service

No. of sessions504
Number of patients treated476
Appointments made3484
kept3152
Plastic fillings2661337 total
Amalgam fillings1071
Inlays2
Crowns19
Scalings and gum treatments365
Dressings395
Extractions360
General anaesthetics83
Local anaesthetics362
X-rays285
Impressions506
Bites132
Try- ins206
Full upper dentures74175 total dentures
Full lower dentures57
Partial upper dentures26
Partial lower dentures18
Repairs188
Minor Oral Surgery22
Other Operations403