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Heston and Isleworth 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]
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| No. | Remarks. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3. Attendances made by children for treatment | 10530 | 3. The Gross attendances made by children at the Dental Clinic were 12,584, but children were not always physically treated, for various reasons, every time they attended. | ||
| 4. Fillings— | 4. The ratio of fillings in permanent teeth to extractions of permanent teeth was 528 fillings to 100 extractions. | |||
| Permanent Teeth | 5072 | |||
| Temporary Teeth | 829 | 5901 | ||
| 5. Extractions— | Perm. | Temp. | ||
| At Treatment Sessions | 35 | 1000 | ||
| At Gas Sessions | 924 | 3232 | ||
| Total | 5191 | |||
| 6. Administrations of general anæsthetics | 1386 | 6. The percentage of attendances for "Gas" 1,386 of total attendances for treatment 10,530 was 13.16. | ||
| 7. Other Operations | 4457 | |||
The 1,386 "administrations of general anaesthetics for extractions " represents the number
of times gas was given, and not the number of sessions devoted to extractions under gas, which
was 97.
Staff responsible for the above work:—
1 Senior Dental Surgeon whole time (whole year). Equivalent, in terms of sessions to nearly two whole time Dental Surgeons for whole year.
1 Junior „ „ „ „ (from July).
Temporary Dental Surgeons on Sessional basis.
1 Approved Dental Nurse.
2 Clerk Attendants.
2 Junior Clerk Attendants. (These two junior Clerk Attendants took up duty from the
16th April, 1934). Plus some clerical assistance from the Office of the School
Medical Officer.
Extra Staff for Gas Sessions only.
2 Anaesthetists (Deputy School Medical Officer and Assistant School Medical Officer).
1 Trained Nurse (Recovery Room).
For Orthodontic Sessions.
Orthodontic Consultant—1 session per month.
Dental Mechanic—Once a week.
Dentures for School Children.
In four cases dentures were supplied for school children where the state of the mouth left
by the necessary extractions was such that it was imperative to supply dentures to replace the
teeth removed. These are charged for on the same scale as for dentures supplied to mothers under
the Maternity and Child Welfare Dental Scheme.
The figure shown in the Table—4,457—is made up as follows, and is, of course, considerably augmented by the Orthodontic scheme, as this work in statistical form cannot be shown elsewhere in the Board's Table:—
| Silver Nitrate Treatment | 443 |
| Dressings | 421 |
| Scaling and Polishing Teeth | 76 |
| Treatment of Gums | 34 |
| „ by Drugs | 2 |
| Separating Teeth | 10 |
| Destroying the Pulp | 1 |
| Orthodontic Cases (Advice) | 485 |
| Impressions taken | 1,289 |