[Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, East Berks (Berkshire) United Sanitary Districts (Maidenhead U.D.C., Wokingham U.D.C., Cookham R.D.C., Easthampstead R.D.C., Windsor R.D.C., Wokingham R.D.C.).

  • East Berks (Berkshire United Sanitary Districts)
Date:
1939
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Credit: [Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, East Berks (Berkshire) United Sanitary Districts (Maidenhead U.D.C., Wokingham U.D.C., Cookham R.D.C., Easthampstead R.D.C., Windsor R.D.C., Wokingham R.D.C.). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (iv) Dental, Orthopaedic, etc.. Treatment. In this con- nection there is nothing to add to the description of the arrangement that appeared in the previous year’s Report (page 54). On account of lack of accommodation it has not been found possible to extend dental treatment to the mothers attending the Centre. During the year there were 272 attendances at the Dental Clinic of children of pre-school age. These included 93 inspections, 146 fillings and 149 extractions. i Cases requiring Orthopoedic treatment are referred to the local branch of the Wingfield-Morris Orthopoedic Hospital, which is held in the Out-Patient Department of the Maidenhead Hospital weekly, on Fridays at 2 p.m. During the past year 8 children under 5 years of age were so referred from the Welfare Centre, and in addition 62 children (all ages) attended the Classes for Remedial Exercises held twice weekly in connection with this Department. In previous Reports comment has been made upon the inadequacy and inconvenience of the premises at present used for Welfare work and Clinics, these being, in.fact, the “ temporary accommodation ” provided at the end of the last war. After much negotiation and many set-backs a scheme to provide a Municipal Health Centre worthy of the activities envisaged and adequate for present as well as future needs, was completed in 1939. By the irony of fate permission to proceed with the work at a cost of approximately £10,000 was received from the Government Departments concerned on the 4th of September—the day after War was declared. Needless to say, the Scheme is now in abeyance and the want of proper accommodation and convenience for the treatment and supervision of the numerous additional cases arising out of the influx of evacuees was keenly felt.