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Residential homes and schools
Treatment for children at residential establishments continued to be erratic and not
altogether satisfactory at all establishments. Visiting dental officers were not easily recruited
and the contracted services of local practitioners produced transport and other difficulties
not always capable of satisfactory solution. At most schools local general dental practitioners
undertook treatments and were paid N.H.S. standard fees by the Council.
Dental auxiliary experiment
Participation in the national experiment in the use of dental auxiliaries continued, but
resignations and replacements of staff clouded results. Towards the end of the year two
of the five girls employed in the Council's services were re-deployed to work in the two
Council surgeries at New Cross School for Dental Auxiliaries, as their full employment
in normal Council surgeries could not be maintained, and one girl resigned.