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Urgent cases of toothache reported by the teachers or parents are given
priority and conservative including orthodontic treatment is carried out
when possible, but in the existing conditions it is impossible to provide an
adequate and satisfactory service.
During the year 2,098 children were specially referred to the Dejitists,
all of whom were found to require treatment, the children being in the
following age groups :—
Age-groups
(years) 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
No. of inspections
of
children 309 373 307 218 183 210 165 124 81 90 38
In addition to the ordinary dental work of fillings and extractions,
7 dentures and 108 regulation plates were supplied. Further, 38 X-ray
examinations of the teeth of children of school age were carried out at the
Mayesbrook Dental Clinic.
Full details of the dental work are shown in Table V.
Open Air School.—During 1951, the number on the roll varied from
76 on 31.12.50 to 81 on 31.12.51. The number of admissions was 36 and the
number of discharges was 31.
Debility without any other defect accounted for a total of 13 children
in 1951, as against 17 in 1950. Three of the 13 were discharged to ordinary
schools during the course of the year, and one left on reaching school leaving
age.
The tendency noted in 1950 towards becoming more specifically a school
for physically handicapped children was again emphasised and is reflected
in the following list of recommendations for admission.
School Medical Officer:—
Asthma 6
Asthma and bronchitis 6
Bronchitis 3
Bronchiectasis 1
Debility 3
Debility and malnutrition 1
Pulmonary catarrh 1
Colitis 1
Otitis media 1
Suspected T.B. left tibia 1
Congenital deformities 1
Spastic diplegia 1
Paresis of arms, hands and legs 1
Diplegia of athetoid type 1
Muscular dystrophy 1
Amyotonia congenita 1
Subnormal nutrition 1
Chest Physician:—
T.B. right hip 1
Arrested T.B. left hip 1
Abnormal nutrition 1
Others:—
Debility and nervousness 1
Spastic Paraplegia 1