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REPORT ON THE SCHOOL DENTAL SERVICE IN EALING 1962
The flow of school child patients to the private practitioner has continued during the
year and whilst this may be deplored from a purely personal point of view, it is quite
obvious from examining children of all ages that an enormous amount of work has
been completed by the private practitioner. The School Service with its present facilities
could not possibly have coped with the demands without a phenomenal increase in
premises and staff. It would seem too, that some private practitioners treat a very high
proportion of school children and are very popular with their patients. It might be said
that they almost specialize in the treatment of children. The standard of work done
appears to be high. This diversion of children, particularly the older ones, to the
private practitioner leaves the clinics with an increasingly higher proportion of very
young, difficult and reluctant patients. In terms of productivity, work done per session
has fallen by almost 10% during the year.
One full-time officer retired in December 1961 and his place has been taken by a
"floating portion" of newly qualified part-timers. A few years ago the part-timers we
were getting had completed their National Service in the forces and had to some considerable
extent learned their job. Now the young people we get come straight from the
final examinations hall to the school clinic and they are relatively slow and have very
much to learn. The school clinic is an excellent place to do this from their point of view
but it is not ideal from ours.

MEDICAL EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS
Number of Teachers examined as to fitness for appointments 59
64