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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Acton 1940
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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TABLE IV.
Dental Inspection and Treatment.
| (1) Number of children inspected by the Dentist: | (4) Attendances made by children for treatment | 1834 | ||
| Age: | 5) Half-days devoted to: | |||
| (a) Routine age-groups - | 5— 313 | Inspection | 25 | |
| Treatment | 436 | |||
| 6—317 | ||||
| Total | 461 | |||
| 7— 350 | ||||
| 8—357 | ||||
| 9— 357 | (6) Fillings : | |||
| 10— 340 | ||||
| Permanent Teeth | 853 | |||
| 11— -286 | ||||
| Temporary Teeth | 40 | |||
| 12— 316 | ||||
| 13— 277 | Total | 893 | ||
| 14— 36' | ||||
| -2949 | (7) Extractions: | |||
| Permanent Teeth | 433 | |||
| (b) Specials | 17 | Temporary Teeth Total | 1672 2105 | |
| (c)Total (Routine & Special) | 2966 | (8) Administrations of general anaesthetics for extractions | 979 | |
| (9) Other Operations: | ||||
| (2)Number found to require treatment | 2093 | Permanent Teeth | 113 | |
| Temporary Teeth | 62 | |||
| (3) Number actually treated | 1342 | Total | 175 | |
TABLE V.
Verminous Conditions.
| Average number of visits per school made during the year by the School Nurses | 7 |
| Total number of examinations of children in the Schools by School Nurses | 14558 |
| Number of individual children found unclean:— | |
| Vermin and Nits | 27 |
| Slightly Infested | 209 |
| Number of individual children cleansed under Section 87 (2) and (3) of the Education Act, 1921 | — |
| Number of cases in which legal proceedings were taken:— | |
| (a) Under the Education Act, 1921 | - |
| (b) Under School Attendance Byelaws | — |