View report page

25
Other operations amounted to 72 separate items of treatment.
They included scaling, dressing to painful teeth, applications of
drugs to various gum conditions, adjustments to orthodontic
appliances and impression taking. There were three children
fitted with orthodontic appliances and three had artificial dentures
fitted.
Defective Speech.—Treatment was given during the year at
the following Health Centres :
Mattock Lane
Perivale
Cherington House
Ravenor Park
Greenford Green
Oldfields School
Twice weekly
Once a week

Many of the children attended twice weekly. The attendance
varied during the year, owing to illness in the winter terms, and
holidays with parents during the summer term. On the whole,
attendance was very good.
Students from the Central School of Speech Training and
Dramatic Art attended sessions at the Health Centres at Hanwell
and Ravenor Park.
Forty-one school visits were made during the year, when new
cases were seen and advice was given for the children that were
unable to be admitted owing to the large numbers already undergoing
treatment.
Thirty-five visits to the children's homes were made during the
year to ensure that the children were being helped as much as
possible in their own homes.
Discharged as cured 17
Left school 9
Left the area or discontinued treatment 7