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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

Brentford and Chiswick 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]

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It is staffed by a fully qualified Nurse from the Royal
National Orthopaedic Hospital and is equipped with two lamps.
One is a carbon arc lamp presented by the Gunnersbury Clinic
in memory of the late Mrs. Olive Brierley, and the other is a
Duo-therapy Mercury Vapour lamp, for the cost of which a
contribution was made by Mr. Harris in memory of his mother.

Table: Dental Clinic.Miss L,oretz, the Dental Surgeon, gives the following table of work done for mothers and children attending the Maternity and Child Welfare and Ante-Natal Clinics.:—

Dental Clinic.

Miss L,oretz, the Dental Surgeon, gives the following table of work done for mothers and children attending the Maternity and Child Welfare and Ante-Natal Clinics.:—

Chiswick.Brentford.Total.
Sessions devoted to treatment5152½103½
Patients treated—Mothers100148248
Children92102194
Total192250442
Attendances— Mothers4545901044
Children262314576
Total7169041620
Teeth filled— Permanent66184250
Temporary81148229
Total147332479
Teeth extracted— Permanent303441744
Temporary222272494
Total5257131238
Teeth treated with AgN035286138
Administrations of Nitrous Oxide198257455
Dentures262147
Repairs5510
Scalings172845
Dressings53035
Ante-Natal Clinics.

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Two sessions are held weekly, one in Brentford and one
in Chiswick.
During the year, 538 expectant mothers made 2,260
attendances. As 831 births were notified, this number represents
64.7 per cent. of these births ; the percentages in 1937
and 1936 were 53.4 and 51.7 respectively.