Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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Number of Defects | ||
---|---|---|
Received Operative Treatment. | Received other forms of Treatment. | Total Number treated. |
106 | 5 | 111 |
Number of Defects | ||
Received Operative Treatment. | Received other forms of Treatment. | Total Number treated. |
106 | 5 | 111 |
Table IV.—
(1) Number of Children inspected by the Dentists:— | ||||||||||||
(a) Routine Age Groups— | ||||||||||||
Age | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Total. | |
Number | 1181 | 1382 | 1221 | 1352 | 1586 | 1315 | 810 | 688 | 757 | 154 | 10,446 | |
(6) Specials | 602 | |||||||||||
(e) Total (Routine and Specials) | 11,048 | |||||||||||
(2) Number found to require treatment | 5,914 | |||||||||||
(3) Number actually treated | 3,048 | |||||||||||
(4) Attendances made by children for treatment | 4,897 | |||||||||||
(5) Half-days devoted to | Inspection | 92 | Total . | 670 | ||||||||
Treatment | 578 | |||||||||||
(6) Fillings | Permanent Teeth | 1.878 | Total | 3,949 | ||||||||
Temporary Teeth | 2,071 | |||||||||||
(7) Extractions | Permanent Teeth | 653 | Total | 5,449 | ||||||||
Temporary Teeth | 4,796 | |||||||||||
(8) Administrations of general anaesthetics for extractions | 1,331 | |||||||||||
(9) Other operations | Permanent Teeth | 1,282 | Total | 1,856 | ||||||||
Temporary Teeth | 574 |
Table V.—
(i) Average number of visits per school made during the year by the School Nurses | 5 |
(ii) Total number of examinations of children in the Schools by School Nurses | 29,700 |
(iii) Number of individual children found unclean | 7301 |
(iv) Number of children cleansed under the arrangements made by the Local Education Authority | Nil |
(v) Number of cases in which legal proceedings were taken:- | |
(a) Under the Education Act, 1921 | Nil |
(b) Under School Attendance Bye-laws | Nil |
* In addition 63 children were found unclean at medical inspection and 334
in the School Clinic.