[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Bournemouth County Borough.

  • Bournemouth (England). County Borough Council. nb2004301338.
Date:
1937
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Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Bournemouth County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    During the year 4S sessions were arranged and 25!) children attended, 21() receiving operative treatment. Of tlie remaining 43 cases 37 were refused operation on account of a temperature and six for other defects. ORTHOPAEDICS. Tliere is no clinic provided by the Council for the treatment of deformities. .Several children are sent every year to residen- tial institutions and others have been referred to the Ortho- paedic Surgeon at Boscombe Hospital where advice and treatment have been given free of charge to the Bocal Authority. Recently, however, negotiations have been initiated with a view to making definite arrangements with the Hospital Authorities and details of the scheme are still being comsidered. The number of defects ascertained certainly renders desirable the provision of adecjuate treatment and after-care. THE DENTAL SERVICE. A whole-time school dentist and dental attendant became available in April from which date a general improvement in the working of the scheme was apparent. Further extensions are anticipated as it is proposed in co-operation with the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee to make provision for the examination and treatment of the pre-school child which until now has only been dealt with as a casualty. Another dentist and an attendant will therefore be required. At dental inspections approximately 70 per cent, of the children are referred for treatment but until this year the acceptance rate has been low—21 per cent, in 1936. It has recently risen to 57 per cent, in consequence of various measures adopted. These include talks to the parents and children bj’ the Dentist, visits to the homes by the nurses and a simplified method of collecting contributions. In addition lectures arranged by the Dental Board of the United Kingdom have stimulated interest. For a time it was arranged that the nurses should visit parents who had failed to respond to the notices sent in respect of fillings but this has been temporarily discontinued as so many other children have awaited treatment. The results of these visits are shewn in the table.