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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
Hackney 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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STATISTICS
| 1. | ||
| (a) Treatment | 57.6 | |
| (b) Inspection | 6.9 | |
| 2. | ||
| (a) Number of first inspections | 147 | |
| (b) Number requiring treatment | 52 | |
| (c) Number offered treatment | 51 | |
| (d) Number of re-inspect ions | 1 | |
| (e) Number requiring treatment | 1 | |
| 3. | ||
| (a) First visits | 113 | |
| (b) Subsequent visits | 393 | |
| (c) Total visits | 506 | |
| (d) Emergency visits | 1 | |
| (e) Appointments not kept | 5 | |
| 4. | 59 | |
| 5. | ||
| (a) Fillings - Permanent teeth | 173 | |
| (b) Fillings - Deciduous teeth | 19 | |
| (c) Teeth filled - Permanent teeth | 155 | |
| (d) Teeth filled - Deciduous teeth | 19 | |
| (e) Teeth extracted - Permanent teeth | 35 | |
| (f) Teeth extracted - Deciduous teeth | 6 | |
| (g) Prophylaxis | 380 | |
| (h) Teeth otherwise conserved | 4 | |
| (i) Teeth root filled | 1 | |
| (j) Completed Orthodontics | 3 | |
| (k) General anaesthetics | ||
Future Plans
It is hoped during the next year, with the increase in staff, and in
co-operation with the hospitals, the general practitioners and the other
welfare services, to arrange to carry out the work on an area basis. It is
also planned to re-think the activities for the mentally handicapped in order
to make them more independent and thus more suitable for integration into the
general community.
The Albion Road project providing an industrial day centre for sixty
ex-mentally ill patients and independently an industrial centre for one
hundred mentally handicapped is still in the process of planning. Comprehensive
plans have now been prepared and it is hoped work will commence during
next year.
The plans for a hostel for mentally handicapped children in King's
Crescent have also been discussed in detail. It is a new venture and probably
the only one so far in the country. The hostel will also take severely
handicapped children and will not fulfil its proper purpose if not enough
special care unit facilities are made available to occupy the children during
the day.