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Minor treatments, such as dressings, easings, etc., are not included
in these figures.
The slight decrease in the figures compared with the previous year is
due, I think, to the change from the old premises to the new. The
Wesleyan premises in Old Ford were the centre of Bow Clinics and were
oil a bus route from Poplar. The new Centre, although just off Bow Road,
is not on the direct bus route from Poplar. In such a change there is always
some difficulty in keeping up the continuity of the work.
The advantages of the change are enormous, however, and our new
premises are a very great improvement on the old ones. In spite of a
rather small surgery, we find the work runs smoothly and our recovery
rooms provide a means whereby the Surgery can be cleared quickly and
the next case seen with the minimum of delay.
It would appear that the number of children requiring treatment is
on the increase, and in most cases treatment by extraction is indicated.
As it was considered that the extraction of eight or perhaps ten
teeth in a child's mouth produced a considerable degree of shock, and
the rather confined space of the recovery rooms rendered it hardly possible
to keep these cases under observation for a reasonable time after general
anaesthetics, arrangements were made for the provision of several stretchers
in another room. The children are now encouraged to remain on the
premises as long as possible, thereby ensuring a better recovery.