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Southall 1939

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall]

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Dental Treatment.
By arrangement between this Council and the County Education Authority,
expectant and nursing mothers and children under five years of age attending the
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres are enabled to have dental treatment and advice,
including if necessary the provisions of dentures.
Below are the details of the year's working of the clinic:—

Table No. 30.

Expectant and Nursing Mothers:—
Number sent to the dentist for inspection124
Number inspected95
Number for whom treatment was completed69
Number of completed dentures60
Number of fillings36
Number of local anaesthetics25
Number of gas cases108
Total number of attendances and re-attendances505
Children under five years of age:—
Number sent for inspection178
Number inspected155
Number for whom treatment was completed154
Number of fillings64
Number of local anaesthetics2
Number of gas cases130
Total number of attendances and re-attendances to dentist308

These figures show a total number of 813 attendances compared with 689 in 1938,
603 in 1937 and 395 in 1936.
Assisted Services.
The expansion of the Maternity and Child Welfare services commented on on
page 31 of the report for 1935, continued during 1939. Apart from those included
in the above tables, the figures of applications for services which were granted were
as follows:—

Table No. 31.

ServiceFreePart cost
1.Provision of a midwife at confinement : (a) Primiparae2269
(b) Multiparae88115
2.Provision of home help at confinement5910
3.Provision of sterilised accouchement sets445*
4.Provision of consultant for cases of difficult labour
5.Provision of consultant for Puerperal cases
* In addition, about 202 sets were supplied at "full cost."