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Congenital disclocation of
Hips 1(3) on the Borough s register
Hypospadias 7(1)
Mongol 1(1) of handicapped children.
Abnormalities of Limbs 9(5)
Maternity and Child Health Services -Dental
It will be seen from the statistics below that the number of preschool
children treated annually by the Borough Dental Services has declined
considerably over the past few years This is a matter for real
concern and every effort will be made in future years to reach the preschool
population
Professor G,B.Winter referred to the problems of the pre-school population
in a paper read to the British Dental Association Conference at
Bournemouth in 1969
"An accurate assessment of the needs for dental care in the pre-school
child population of this country cannot be made at the present time and relevant
information is mainly available from indirect sources. The most recent
information published by the Office'of Health Economics (1969) relates to
treatment obtained by pre-school children during the year 1967 In that year,
73,000 pre-school children were treated by the local authority dental health
services. This represents some 3% of those likely to require treatment between
the ages of 2 and 4 years. 500,000 courses of treatment for pre-school
children were performed by the general dental services in the same year.
If each child received one course of treatment from the general dental services,
during 1967, this would mean that approximately 21% of all pre-school
children between the ages of 2 and 4 years had received such treatment.
Thus, just under one-quarter of all pre-school children between the
ages of 2 and 4 years received any form of dental treatment in that year.
One must bear in mind that this is a designated priority group of the population".

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