Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the School Medical Officer for Barking
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The dental treatment of mothers, and children under school
age, continues satisfactorily. The number of children under age,
who have attended for treatment at the clinic, has doubled in the
year as has the number of mothers supplied with dentures subsequent
to extraction of teeth.
Particulars of this work may be found in the subjoined table.
Number of children treated under school age | 80 |
Number of mothers who accepted treatment:— | |
119 | |
556 | |
Total number of Fillings | 36 |
ditto Scalings | 23 |
ditto Dressings | 86 |
ditto Extractions | 867 |
ditto Administrations of Anaesthetics:— | |
138 | |
28 | |
Number of dentures supplied | 51 |
Number of sessions devoted to mothers, and children under 5 years | 44 |
W. W. F. DAWE, L.D.S., R.C.S. (Eng.), |