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D. M. Connan and S. Churchill, Assistant Medical Officers of Health,
who are responsible for general anaesthesia, and to the medical
officers in charge of voluntary centres for their kindly co-operation.
I am obliged to Messrs. H. W. Bush and A. Fair of your office staff,
and to Mr. Love of the Accountancy Department, for their great
help; and to Mr. G. W. Clark and Miss Helden, the dental mechanic
and nurse."
GRANTLEY SMITH,
Municipal Dental Officer.
TABLE I.
Dental Inspection of the Pre-School Child.
Average Number of
Carious Teeth per Child
of those Diseased.
Number
Inspected.
Number of Children
with Diseased Teeth.
Age.
16 = 34 per cent.
2.9
47
2 years
3 years
21
14 = 66 per cent.
4.2
4 years
39
34 = 87 per cent.
6.3
27
26 = 96 per cent.
5 years
6
4.3
134
Total
90 = 67 per cent.