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but wait until their mouths are so septic that extraction is
the only treatment practicable. More instruction in oral
hygiene should benefit them and encourage them to improve
the condition of their mouths and thereby their general
health.
Elsa M. Johnson,
L.D.S. Eng.
Mr. Bate furnishes me with the following statistics:—
Sessions held, 92, of which 16 were Gas Sessions.
Children attending routine inspections, 42, of whom 30 were
found to require treatment.
Children referred by Medical Officers and Health Visitors
154, 137 of them requiring treatment and making 311
subsequent attendances.
Teeth extracted
Children or stopped
Treatment under gas 152 488
Treatment under ethyl chloride
spray 28 38
Stoppings 99 158
Removal of stain by polishing. 21 —
Silver Nitrate 67 teeth —
Gum treatment 3 - —
During the year there was a marked decrease in the
number of routine cases that attended the Centre, although
a large number of notices were sent out, but the number of
cases, recommended by the Centre, doctors, and Health
Visitors, which attended showed an increase over the year
1936, and the subsequent attendances were about the same,
so that although there appears to have been a lesser number
of Toddlers inspected, the actual number of treatments
completed averages about the same as for the previous year.
F. Reginald Bate, L.D.S., R.C.S., (Eng.),
Dental Surgeon.