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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
West Ham 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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Certain aspects of the arrangements made for inspection
and treatment are set out in Table XXI. It will be seen that the
number of half-days which are devoted to inspections has not
Table XXI.
Elementary education. Dental inspection and treatment.
| Year | Half-days devoted to | Total half-days | Total attendances for treatment | Average No. inspected per inspection session | Average No. treated per treatment session | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspection | Treatment | |||||
| 1920 | 224 | 515 | 739 | 6,348 | 63.3 | 8.5 |
| 1921 | 392 | 338 | 730 | 3,674 | 57.2 | 8.4 |
| 1922 | 451 | 259 | 710 | 4,014 | 55.7 | 13.4 |
| 1923 | 175 | 491 | 666 | 8,148 | 89.6 | 12.7 |
| 1924 | 249 | 1,129 | 1,378 | 11,333 | 68.8 | 6.3 |
| 1925 | 239 | 1,147 | 1,386 | 11,314 | 72.8 | 5.5 |
| 1926 | 222 | 1,151 | 1,373 | 11,529 | 80.1 | 6.0 |
| 1927 | 200 | 1,168 | 1,368 | 11,903 | 90.2 | 5.7 |
| 1928 | 180 | 1,234 | 1,414 | 12,112 | 99.2 | 5.8 |
| 1929 | 182 | 1,612 | 1,794 | 14,081 | 100.1 | 5.2 |
| 1930 | 276 | 1,923 | 2,199 | 17,360 | 96.3 | 5.3 |
| 1931 | 255 | 1,988 | 2,243 | 18,419 | 96.7 | 5.2 |
| 1932 | 262 | 2,068 | 2,330 | 18,812 | 99.7 | 5.2 |
| 1933 | 233 | 1,958 | 2,191 | 16,892 | 106.6 | 5.4 |
| 1934 | 198 | 2,024 | 2,222 | 17,267 | 108.7 | 4.9 |
| 1935 | 191 | 2,001 | 2,192 | 16,883 | 107.7 | 5.3 |
| 1936 | 194 | 2,079 | 2 273 | 17,346 | 115.6 | 5.0 |
| 1937 | 195 | 1,996 | 2,191 | 16,720 | 116.6 | 5.1 |
altered very materially during the past eighteen years. On the
other hand the number of sessions devoted to treatment is now
four or five times what it was about the beginning of this period.
It should be remembered that time spent in discovering defects
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