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Acton 1935

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]

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The problem of oral hygiene still remains a big one. I was
very interested to find that one or two classes which have adopted
Gibbs' Ivory Castle League idea showed a really great improvement
in this direction.
It is, I think, only by such constant and continuous methods
that much impression can be made, and I am hoping that the scheme
will be extended, and that teachers will not find the extra work
and supervision entailed to be too great. They will certainly be
doing a very excellent work.
We are treating many more Welfare cases, mothers and infants,
and this should have a beneficial effect upon the school
children of the future.

Table: The figures for the elementary schools are given in the Tables at the end of the Report, but below will be found a summary of the work carried out for the Technical and Secondary Schools and for the Welfare Clinics.

The figures for the elementary schools are given in the Tables at the end of the Report, but below will be found a summary of the work carried out for the Technical and Secondary Schools and for the Welfare Clinics.

Schools.T V elf are cases
Number of cases examined535Mothers126
Children176
Referred for treatment426Mothers126
Children155
Treated165Mothers85
Children142
Number of fillings371Fillings116
Number of extractions116Extractions1043
Number of d ressings39Dressings93
Number of attendances421Attendances458
Dentures19

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P. H. SLATER.
School Dental Surgeon.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
80 cases of Diphtheria were notified in the Borough during
1935, and there were 8 deaths. All these deaths were in nonimmunised
persons. Even endeavour is still being made to keep
tip the level of immunity which was attained in 1932-1933, and in
this connection it may be of interest to compare the percentage
immunised in the Infant departments of our schools at the end of.