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"The dental inspection and treatment of all the school
children has been completed within the year. This satisfactory
condition has not been accomplished before, owing to the fact
that on account of the rapidly increasing school population there
were always more children needing treatment than one dentist,
latterly two dentists, could possibly manage. Now there are two
whole-time dentists and one part-time to inspect and treat over
11,000 children.
"The part-time dentist has two schools with roughly 900
children to inspect and treat and devotes two sessions weekly to
the work, six of the sessions being allowed during the year for the
inspection of the children and the rest for treatment.
"The treatment given at the Ravenor Park and Islips Manor
Centres was very extensive, as the children attending the new
schools in the Greenford and Northolt wards apparently had had
very little dental treatment before. The work during the current
year at these centres should be much more conservative.
"Most of the leavers, these are children of 14 years of age and
upwards, who left school during the year showed a very good dental
condition; in fact, out of 473 who left, 376 or 79.5 per cent. had
been treated and therefore on leaving school had sound mouths.
Those children leaving and not receiving complete treatment
totalled 97 or 20.5 per cent.
"The actual work carried out at the various centres shows a
big increase over each of the last three years. In 1931 11,261
children were inspected and of this number 7,634 were found to
require treatment. Those actually treated numbered 5,571 and
of these 617 re-visited for further treatment, making a total of
6,188 attendances in the year. For these children various forms
of treatment were carried out; 8,185 fillings were put into permanent
teeth and 1,012 temporary fillings were inserted in the first dentition.
Dressings of silver nitrate were applied to 420 temporary and
permanent teeth and 131 children had their teeth scaled. Treatment
of ulcerative stomatitis was given in two cases and root