London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Heston and Isleworth 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]

This page requires JavaScript

Table: Attendances. Statistical Table—1936/1937.Increase over 1936.

Attendances. Statistical Table—1936/1937.

Increase over 1936.

No of children inspected.Age.1936.1937.Nos.%
57341125
69391120
79281151
89721329
98981220
109391319
117901208
12870871
13743868
14301418
155351
816710680
Specials27262385
1089313065217219.9%
Numbers found to require treatment76519883223229.1%
Numbers actually treated656869593915.9%
Attendances made by children for treatment2140026113471322.0%
1936.1937.Increase over 1936.Decrease over 1936
Nos.%Nos.%
i days devoted to Inspections 66841827.2%
To treat: Ordinary1612199338123.6%
Gas 1921613116.1%

Text

Copy text to clipboard

ADMINISTRATION AND
COMMITTEE SESSIONS
(S.D.O. ONLY)95 108 13 13.6%

Table: These Sessions included every section of the Clinic's work, and not exclusively for Elementary Schools.

These Sessions included every section of the Clinic's work, and not exclusively for Elementary Schools.

FILLING AND EXTRACTIONS.1936. Permanent Teeth.1937. Permanent Teeth.
Fillings861510971
Extractions17111654

Text

Copy text to clipboard

This shows in 1936 that for every permanent tooth extracted, at least 5 permanent teeth
were filled.

Table: In 1937 for every permanent tooth extracted, nearly 7 permanent teeth were filled.

In 1937 for every permanent tooth extracted, nearly 7 permanent teeth were filled.

1936. Temporary Teeth.1937. Temporary Teeth.
Fillings13871497
Extractions69486539

Text

Copy text to clipboard

In many Reports of "The Health of the School Child," the pendulum swung violently
between Fillings and Extractions. One year it was this, next year it was that.
The present tendency is to discourage too much time being spent on filling these teeth,
in view of the evidential value of the same time being spent filling permanent teeth; to put it in
a simple way, its like a bush fire—cut away an area clear of bushes, and check the fire spreading,
so now we often take out a temporary tooth, to enable us to get at teeth with interstitial cavities,
which otherwise could not be got at.
GAS ADMINISTRATIONS
1936.
2676
1937.
2700
27