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Graph " A "
This graph is submitted not only to show the dramatic rise in annual attendances
at the Dental Clinic from 2,478 to 9,824 in a period of six years and an equally dramatic
rise in the number of extractions, but to show that these totals have depressed a desired
progressive rise of conservative treatment, which remains almost constant to an average
of 1,600 fillings per annum. The operative staff was increased in April, 1931, to cope
with the rapidly growing school population of about that time, but unfortunately the
time of the staff is occupied mainly in rendering the school population dentally fit by
extractions than by the ideal of conservation, the achievement of which calls for further
operative assistance.