Report of the Committee of Management and Medical Director : 1940 / Papworth Village Settlement.

  • Papworth Village Settlement (Cambridge, England)
Date:
1940
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Management and Medical Director : 1940 / Papworth Village Settlement. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    distributed where required. DENTAL DEPARTMENT Mr. W. B. Grandison. The year 1940, like most, if not all, of its predecessors, has been satisfactory as the statistics which follow clearly show. No. of Sessions . 53 ,, Attendances . 869 ,, Fillings . 242 ,, Extractions. 729 ,, Scalings .. 91 ,, Teeth treated with Nitrate of Silver . 121 ,, Cauterizations . 57 (Mostly very successful procedure). ,, Dentures Supplied . 90 ,, Dentures Repaired . 30 ,, Operations . 171 DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY Bernhard Baron Hospital Mr. E. W. Groves X-ray photographs . 1,851 X-ray screen examinations . 2,749 Reduced prints and lantern slides of X-ray photographs . 388 Included in the total of X-ray photographs taken were :— 232for Hunts C.C. and local practitioners. 175 of Hospital and other staff. 64 children of the Settlement (including 21 evacuees). 384 for Papworth Industries. SURGICAL UNIT Vaughan X-ray Department. X-ray photographs . 224 Screen examinations . 273 REPORT OF THE RESEARCH DEPARTMENT. Dr. D. B. Cruickshank. Research I. The Significance of Geographical Distri¬ butors. Recently increased prominence has been given to the regional distribution of diseases, particularly of cancer and tubercu¬ losis throughout England and Wales. After all adjustments have been made for such variables as sex, age distribution, and the type of area affected (County, Borough, Urban, Rural), the corrected rates when plotted on a 1 county ’ map still show variations which are at present generally described as “obvi¬ ously significant ” i.e., there is a tendency to ‘ grouping ’ of counties with similar rates which it seems unlikely could arise by mere chance. The nature of the present investi¬ gation has been to define the size and arrange¬ (Courtesy of LIFE ”) The laboratory at Papworth is too small, but can only be enlarged when funds permit. ment of groups which may be expected to arise by chance and thereby to provide a scale against which the observed distri¬ butions may be classified. By its use it becomes possible to replace the unsatisfactory personal assessment of ‘ obviously significant ’ by an exact figure which gives the probability of the whole or part of any of the configura¬ tions of counties under test. It thus brings the subject into alignment with normal statistical practice, and in addition provides a measure of the intensity of regional influ¬ ences. Geographical Distribution. The conception of geographical distribution is an important one, in fact it often provides information unobtainable by other methods, and it is all the more likely to maintain its usefulness if these distributions can be impartially examined. So far the particular scale produced is limited in application to England and Wales but the prim iple of its construction is equally valid ar.d applicable to any other country. The application of this method to existing maps of cancer and tuberculosis distributions is being carried out. This has necessitate d the development of a standard technique, by which all the two-dimensional configurations of the counties and the inter-relations of groupings one with another can be analysed. The method used is simple and effective and with its aid some forty maps have been examined on the basis of this. Maps will be [7]