[Report 1965] / Medical Officer of Health, Pembrokeshire County Council.

  • Pembrokeshire (Wales). County Council.
Date:
1965
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Credit: [Report 1965] / Medical Officer of Health, Pembrokeshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    health visitors, district nurses, the clerk at the office of the District Medical Officer of Health, Tenby, and a large number of volun- tary workers whose assistance is much appreciated. The demand for national dried milk declined slightly during the year, but the sales of orange juice, cod-liver oil and branded dried milk increased. Two rural distribution centres were closed during 1965. The following statistics are of interest: Number of Items Distributed No. of National Orange Cod Liver Packets of Branded Distribution Dried Milk Juice Oil Vitamin Dried Milk Year Points tins bottles bottles Tablets tins or packets 1965 65 19.674 19,504 1.758 1,302 65,670 1964 58 19,822 17,971 1,672 1,484 64,990 Dental Care During the year, further progress was made with the County Council scheme for the dental care of pre-school age children and expectant and nursing mothers. With the co-operation of the health visitors and district midwives, the importance of early dental care was brought to the notice of many nursing and expectant mothers. There was a small increase in the number of the above-mentioned mothers and young children treated in the dental clinics during the year, but there was also definite evidence that an appreciable percentage of mothers and children who did not attend the clinics received dental care under the general dental service. The Dental School of the University of Liverpool, in associa- tion with the Dental Group of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, investigated regional differences in the feeding habits of young children which may possibly influence the incidence of dental caries. As part of this investigation, the teeth of approxi- mately 72 children under the age of two years from different parts of the County were inspected for early caries and the results forwarded to the University of Liverpool. The local impression of the clinic dental officers is that the frequent use of the “sweetened dummy” is a contributory factor in the causation of dental caries in certain young children. The following statistics are of interest: Expectant and Nursing mothers Pre-school age children Patients examined 56 150 Treatments commenced 33 57 Courses of treatment completed . 20 28