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DENTAL REPORT 1940
To: The Chairman and Members of the Education Committee.
I have the honour to present the Dental Report of
the inspection and treatment of the scholars in the
elementary schools.
The year commenced with most of the school population
attending for instruction, some in the mornings, some in
the afternoons, with several schools accommodated in one
building, but as the shelters at each school were completed
the scholars gradually moved back to their own Schools.
It was thus possible to carry out the routine inspection
at each School as the year advanced.
At the end of January, Mr. Carr, the part-time Dental
Officer, terminated his appointment to take up a wholetime
appointment with the Middlesex County Council. In
view of the large evacuation of children privately, it
was not considered desirable to appoint a successor. It
was also found more convenient to change the Clinical
Sessions at West Wickham from Tuesday mornings and Thursday
afternoons to Wednesdays - all day.
In May, the Kent County Council devided to undertake
the dental inspection and treatment of the scholars in
the Boy's and Girl's Secondary Schools and the Trade School
The Clinic at the Town Hall being used on Wednesdays for
this purpose.
Prior to these arrangements, Secondary School children
were referred through the Headteachers and dealt with by
the Beckenham Staff, but this only touched the fringe of
the dental needs of these children, as there had been no
routine dental inspection.
In reviewing the attendances during the year, things
went smoothly until the "blitz" commenced, and for a few
weeks at that time attendances fell rather badly, but an
attendance figure of 32,000 is, in my view, a reasonably
good one. It reflects groat credit on the parents of