[Report 1970] / Medical Officer of Health, Eastbourne County Borough.

  • Eastbourne (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1970
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Credit: [Report 1970] / Medical Officer of Health, Eastbourne County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Clinic Attendances, 1970 Clinic Number of Children attending Clinics Born in: Total Attendances 1970 1969 1965-68 Total Avenue House . . 127 174 268 569 2,969 Birling Street 87 121 290 498 2,376 Winifred Lee Health Centre and Acacia Villa 143 139 352 634 4,338 Langney 69 73 171 313 2,708 Hampden Park . . 130 143 536 809 4,546 Total . . 556 650 1,617 2,823 16,937 Previous Year’s Attendances 1966 1967 1968 1969 Number of children Number of who attended attendances 2,839 18,554 2,900 20,127 3,047 19,545 2,858 18,114 Welfare Foods and Other Nutrients Arrangements for distribution have continued to run smoothly the main centre for distribution being the Winifred Lee Health Centre. The Central Clinic at Avenue House and three district clinics continued as subsidiary distribution centres during clinic sessions. Under the Authority’s arrangements for the care of mothers and young children a wide variety of dried milk foods, cereals and other nutrients is made available for resale on the recommendation of the Medical Officer or Health Visitor in attendance at the child health sessions. REPORT OF CHIEF DENTAL OFFICER The two passwords of this decade are undoubtedly “communi- cation” and “environment”. And these words are relevant in the context of community dentistry. Recent research has shown that effective communication of the ways to ensure good dental health must begin as early as possible. And that means with the mother-to-be in the ante-natal classes. Too many mothers still have the idea that bad teeth are unavoidable with dentures as the inevitable result. Only too often a child’s first experience of the dentist is the traumatic experience of extraction under “gas” to relieve