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NOTES ON TABLE IV.
(a) The Tables should deal with all defects treated during the year,
however they were brought to the Authority's notice, i.e., whether by
routine inspection, special inspection, or otherwise, during the year in
question or previously.
(b) This heading should include all cases that received treatment
under definite arrangements or agreements for treatment made by the
Local Education Authority and sanctioned by the Board of Education
under Section 80 of the Education Act, 1921. Cases which, after being
recommended for treatment or advised to obtain it, actually received
treatment by private practitioners, or by means of direct application to
hospitals, or by the use of hospital tickets supplied by private persons,
etc., should be entered under other headings.
(c) If any treatment is given for more serious diseases of the ear
(e.g., operative treatment in hospital) it should not be recorded here but
in the body of the School Medical Officer's Annual Report.
(d) Postural defects which received non-residential treatment otherwise
than at an orthopaedic clinic should not be recorded in this Table.
(e) A child may be recorded in more than one category and therefore
the total number of children treated will not necessarily be the same as
the sum of the figures in the separate categories.
(f) The heading "Specials"in this Table relates to all children
inspected by the School Dentist otherwise than in the course of the
routine inspection of children in one of the age groups covered by the
Authority's approved scheme, namely, to children specially selected by
him, or referred by Medical Officers, Parents, Teachers, etc., on account
of urgency. The number inspected in each age group should be separately
shown, as well as the total, but under "Specials "only the total number
should be given.
(g) Temporary fillings, whether in permanent or temporary teeth,
should be recorded as other operations.
(h) A statement as to the arrangements made by the Local Education
Authority for cleansing verminous children and a record of the cases in
which legal proceedings were taken, should be included in the body of
the School Medical Officer's Report.
(i) (i) All cases of uncleanliness, however slight, should be recorded.
(11) The return should relate to individual children and not to
instances of uncleanliness.
NB.—The above Tables cover all the defects for which treatment
is normally provided as part of the School Medical Service. Particulars
as to the measures adopted by the Authority for providing treatment
for other types of defect or for securing improvement in types of defect
which do not fall to be treated under the Authority's own scheme and
for which the Authority neither incur expenditure nor accept any responsibility,
together with a statement of the effect of the measures taken,
should be included in the body of the School Medical Officer's Report.
It is convenient for such particulars to follow the headings of Table II.
(Form 8 b.M.).