Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton]
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The following table gives details of work undertaken during the period under review:-
Attendances and Treatment | Expectant and Nursing Mothers | Children Under 5 | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1969 | 1968 | 1967 | 1969 | 1968 | 1967 | |
Inspection | 36 | 43 | 50 | 1118 | 1289 | 726 |
No. found to require treatment | 32 | 42 | 43 | 401 | 485 | 313 |
No. offered treatment | 30 | 37 | 43 | 377 | 444 | 290 |
Re-inspection | 4 | 11 | 8 | 125 | 283 | 180 |
No. found to require treatment | 3 | 9 | 6 | 68 | 167 | 92 |
First visits for treatment | 36 | 46 | 58 | 394 | 468 | 385 |
Subsequent visits | 93 | 117 | 111 | 716 | 896 | 621 |
Total visits | 129 | 163 | 169 | 1110 | 1364 | 1006 |
Additional courses of treatment | 5 | 2 | 8 | 38 | 84 | 58 |
Fillings | 107 | 137 | 137 | 1183 | 1471 | 999 |
No. of teeth filled | 88 | 109 | 110 | 1091 | 1314 | 878 |
Extractions | 19 | 57 | 26 | 185 | 193 | 136 |
General anaesthetics | 11 | 6 | 11 | 96 | 99 | 62 |
Emergency visits | 3 | 6 | 10 | 63 | 58 | 51 |
Patients x-rayed | 15 | 24 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 4 |
Scalings | 10 | 26 | 21 | 20 | 22 | 23 |
Teeth otherwise conserved | - | - | 3 | 71 | 48 | 160 |
Teeth root filled | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - |
Crowns | - | 1 | l | - | - | - |
Inlays | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
No. of Dentures supplied | 11 | 13 | 10 | 1 | - | - |
Courses of treatment completed | 19 | 28 | 59 | 362 | 424 | 330 |
Sessions devoted to inspection and treatment | 14.55 | 18 | 19.85 | 176.8 | 238 | 167.6 |
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