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officers for conditions of urgency, as well as those needing treatment
for dental sepsis as a preliminary to operation for enlarged
tonsils or adenoids.
In connection with each visit to a school department for dental
inspection of children aged 6, the parents of the children are invited
to attend at the end of the session, and the dentists give a short talk
to them on the general question of dental decay, as well as on the
condition of their children individually. The procedure has been
of value in establishing friendly relations as well as in enlightening
the parents, and is likely to assist materially in encouraging attendance
at the dental clinic.
By arrangement with the Public Health Committee one session
per week at the dental clinic—Saturday morning—is reserved, alternately,
for tuberculous patients needing dental treatment (with full
subsequent disinfection of the clinic) and for expectant and nursing
mothers and for children under 5, selected at the Infant Welfare
Centres by Mr. Senior, who visits these Centres periodically for the
purpose of instruction and inspection. It may be said in parenthesis
that this arrangement has been a most successful and popular one,
and that it is obviously to the1 interest of the Education Committee
that the young children thus reached through the Infant Welfare
Centres should be treated and supervised at the earliest possible
stage.