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Dental inspection of all the pupils attending the County Schools
was carried out on behalf of the Middlesex .Education Committee.
During the year, all the Secondary and, Technical school
pupils who were not evacuated, were inspected. It was found that
of 973 inspected, 429 required treatment, but #by the end of the
year only 241 had received it. The dental treatment of the children
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is carried on into the following year, as they are not seen in the
schools until the latter part of t^e year. A great many of the
children returned to Ealing from the reception areas, for in 1939
only 366 children were seen at the schools.
, The number of teeth extracted * totalled 194. Some of the
children received emergency extractions in the reception areas,
and several came specially from these areas to §ee the Dental Officer
at the centres in Ealing. -Fillings in permanent and .temporary
teeth amounted to 392 ; this figure being smaller by 60 than in
1939.
Other operations included 43 dressings, four gum treatments
for acute gingivitis, and four attendances for orthodontic adjustments
to appliances for those children who were wearing them when
they passed out of their elementary school.
EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS.
The number of children "examined in connection with their
employment out of school hours was 308 and of this number 26
were found to be unfit for employment. The nature of the employments
those certified as fit was :—
Boys. Errand Boys 159
Milk Round 18
Newspaper Round 52
Baker's Round 36
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Order Boy 11
Others 4
280
Girls. Shop Assistants 2
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