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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 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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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)
General Dental Service
| No. of sessions | 415 | |
| Number of patients treated | 325 | |
| Appointments made | 3003 | |
| kept | 2739 | |
| Plastic fillings | 258 | 1167 |
| Amalgam fillings | 909 | |
| Inlays | 6 | |
| Crowns | 8 | |
| Scalings and gum treatments | 320 | |
| Dressings | 320 | |
| Extractions | 314 | |
| General anaesthetics | 55 | |
| Local anaesthetics | 255 | |
| X rays | 356 | |
| Impressions | 545 | |
| Bites | 135 | |
| Try ins | 214 | |
| Pull upper dentures | 67 | 176 total dentures |
| Full lower dentures | 42 | |
| Partial upper dentures | 23 | |
| Partial lower dentures | 44 | |
| Repairs | 158 | |
| Minor Oral Surgery | 16 | |
| Other Operations | 376 | |
Dental Laboratory
| Dentures | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Dental Service | 173 | 155 | 6 | 4 | - | 7 | 1 |
| Walthamstow Committee for Education | 42 | 34 | - | - | 146 | 15 | - |
| Leyton Committee for Education | 30 | 16 | - | - | 83 | 4 | 1 |
| Forest Divisional Executive Committee for Education | 1 | 2 | - | - | 20 | - | - |
| Maternity and Child Welfare Patients | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - |