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The year shows a record in the number of fillings and
other prophylactic treatment completed, which is very
encouraging and it is to be hoped that good attendances
will continue throughout the coming year.
F. Reginald Bate, L.D.S., R.C.S., (Eng.),
Dental Surgeon.
Dr. A. R. Kerridge was appointed as
Ana;sthetist during the year.
DENTAL CARE OF TODDLERS
I must express my disappointment at our failure
hitherto to secure the co-operation of the parents of
young children in the proper care of their teeth.
Considerable thought and effort has been devoted to
suitable publicity schemes to intensify the educational
efforts of the doctors and health visitors, but
the response hitherto has been very small. At present
the Dental Clinic is working considerably under
capacity so far as young children are concerned, yet
it is well known that the condition of the teeth of
the majority of these children at 3 and 4 is very
unsatisfactory.
Bethnal Green parents show in other matters such
a high standard of care for their children that their
ignorance or indifference with regard to dental health
is both surprising and disconcerting. The Clinic at
the Welfare Centre is well equipped and well staffed
and it seems a thousand pities that these facilities
are not used more fully by those for whom they
were intended.
ENLARGED TONSILS, ADENOIDS AND
MASTOID DISEASE.
In accordance with the arrangements with the
Queen's Hospital, 11 young children had operations
for enlarged tonsils as in-patients upon the recommendation
of the Medical Officers of the Welfare
Centres.