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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
Croydon 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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The treatment of scholarship children attending secondary schools was as follows:
| Attendances | 141 | Other operations | 30 |
| New cases | 59 | Scalings | 11 |
| Permanent fillings | 76 | Gas cases | 9 |
| Extraction of permanent teeth | 33 | Local anaesthesia | 31 |
| Cases completed | 41 | ||
| Ditto, temporary teeth | 3 |
Scholarship children are treated at Lodge Road and Selhurst
Road Clinics.
Nine patients were referred under the mental deficiency
scheme; two had teeth extracted under nitrous oxide anaesthesia
and seven received conservative treatment.
Summary of School Children Inspected and Treated During the Year.
| Patients examined | 16,910 | Patients treated | 7,476 |
| Attendances | 13,611 | Fillings | 6,048 |
| Extractions | 12,410 | "Gas" cases | 1,904 |
| Other operations | 2,751 | Local anaesthesia | 3,447 |
| Sessions Held. | |||
| Inspections | 83 | Treatment | 1,148 |
| Administration | 16 | Orthodontia | 39 |
| Gas administration | 135 | Total sessions | 1,421 |
In addition, 172 sessions were occupied in other than school
work. The dental officers devoted 80 sessions and the assistant
medical officers 55 sessions to gas administrations.
Selhurst Road Clinic.
This Clinic has been in existence for over four years and the
record of work done has proved its need. Additional clinics for
Norbury and Waddon would relieve the congestion of cases at the
Lodge Road treatment centre and would be the means of the children
saving a considerable amount of school time which is lost
through the distance these children have at present to travel. A
clinic in the Waddon district will be established in the coming year.