View report page

39
DETAILS OF VISITS
Day Nurseries 7 (379 places)
Visits by Medical Officers 48
Number of children examined 466
Number of children immunised 56
Playgroups 26
Visits hy Medical Officers 72
Residential Children's Homes 29
Visits by Deputy Medical Officer 60
Old People's Homes
Visits hy a Principal Medical Officer annually
Child Minders (5 or more children)
Visits by Medical Officers 84
Boarding Out of Children
Places dealt with 36
Adoptions
Cases dealt with 37
Health Visits to Elderly People
Cases visited 22
DENTAL CARE FOR THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED
There has been further progress in the field of dental care for the
mentally handicapped. It was again found necessary to fill less decayed
teeth than previously, and so we have continued to concentrate on the prevention
of both tooth decay and gum disease. We have placed virtually the
same number of fillings, but these have been done in less than half the
number of sessions, thus although the same amount of patients were treated,
they only attended for a third of the number of visits needed in 1971. The
ratio of teeth filled to teeth extracted was 8:1 (10.2:1 in 1971). Over
fifty per cent of patients treated during the year had a subsequent course
of treatment.