[Report 1934] / Medical Officer of Health, Dudley County Borough.

  • Dudley (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1934
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Credit: [Report 1934] / Medical Officer of Health, Dudley County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1933 figures given below for comparison. Attendance. Fillings Permanent Fillings Temporary. Extractions Permanent Extractions Temporary. Genera] Anaesthetics. Other Operations Permanent. Other Operations Temporary. Dudley . . 5596 1401 216 1113 4709 3904 568 612 Netherton 1716 309 44 279 1269 867 282 229 Holly Hall ... 642 44 22 1 378 — 151 127 7954 1754 282 1393 6356 4771 1001 968 The following sessions are held at the 3 Clinics :— Dudley, The Firs, 5 joint and 4 single handed sessions* Netherton, 2 joint and 1 single handed sessions. Holly Hall, 1 single handed session. In addition to the above 661 Maternity and Child Welfare cases were treated, as shown in the Maternity and Child Welfare report. The ‘ Health Week ’ being held in November, was rather later than usual. It was a trifle upset by the fact that five days work had to be condensed into four, owing to the holiday for the ‘ Royal Wedding/ Nevertheless, although I have heard nothing in praise or otherwise of Mrs. Lloyd, the lecturer, I can only state one fact, that never before following a Health Week, have our attendances been so high. Our thanks are certainly due to Mrs. Lloyd for the results she obtained. Mention has been made in the Maternity and Child Welfare Report of the unsatisfactory nature of the Holly Hall Clinic. Out of date equipment and an unsatisfactory room with no water laid on, tell their own tale in the table of figures—no real work is possible there. All that is possible is to see cases there and send them to Dudley for treatment. Compare this Clinic with Nether- ton, which since it has been reasonably equipped and brought up-to-date has an attendance (bearing in mind it is only worked three half-days a week) superior to Dudley. Only a matter of three years ago Netherton was considered a quite unsatisfactory clinic. I feel it my duty to urge that if the Holly Hall Clinic cannot be satisfactorily equipped, that it should be closed. From time to time attendances from individual schools are poor, and do cause quite an amount of trouble. We do however manage to get most of the children to the Clinics eventually— some after the loss of much time and patience. Thus out of 3,785 children selected in school for treatment, we actually