Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1919.

  • Bermondsey (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
1920
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Credit: Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1919. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    decided on, I would recommend the Council to take over the present Superintendent, who is fully qualified for the work and knows the district well. This would entail additional working expenses, as her salary is not up to the standard of our Health Visitors. It must not be forgotten at the same time that we get back from the Ministry of Health half our expenses on Maternity and Child Welfare Work. The latter course here sketched out is the one I recommend, but should the committee think it inadvisable to embark on a large scheme at the present moment, I would recommend them to grant another £100 per annum to enable this centre, which is in that part of the Borough with the highest infantile mortality, and therefore very greatly needed, to carry on. Unregistered Dentists. The following report was submitted in June, 1919, on Unregistered Dentists, and representations were made to the Council on the lines suggested:— One of the results of this report was that the Committee, when the question of a dentist in connection with the Maternity and Child Welfare came up later, decided to appoint a whole time dentist at a salary of £600 per annum. The evils of the practice of dentisty by unqualified persons is a subject of a report which was issued in February by the Committee appointed by the Lord President of the Council to enquire into the extent and gravity of the evils of dental practice by persons not qualified under the Dentists' Act. There is no doubt this report is a very grave indictment of the present system whereby unqualified persons can practice dentistry with impunity. Evidence was given before them of a list of injuries, etc., as follows: — (a) Injuries to the mouth and jaws owing to unskilful operations. (b) Teeth are frequently broken, cut or snapped off. (c) Septic poisoning.