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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
Finchley 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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GROUP V.— Dental Defects.
(1) Number of Children who were:
(2) Half-days devoted to: —
Inspection
60
(1) Inspected by the Dentist: —
Treatment
342
Aged :—
Total
402
5
...
164
(3) Attendances made by children
for treatment
2879
6
...
417
7
...
413
(4) Fillings : —
8
...
454
Permanent teeth
1114
Routine
9
...
454
Total : 3937
Temporary teeth
187
Age
10
...
523
Groups.
11
...
463
Total
1301
12
...
411
13
...
417
(5) Extractions :—
14
...
221
Permanent teeth
187
Temporary teeth
1697
Specials
499
Total
1884
GRAND TOTAL
4436
(6) Administrations of general
anæsthetics for extractions
504
(2) Pound to require treatment
2889
(7) Other operations :—
Permanent teeth
408
(3) Actually treated
1908
Temporary teeth
651
Total
1059
GROUP VI. —Uncleanliness and Verminous Conditions.
(1) Average number of visits per school made during
the year by the School Nurses 148
(2) Total number of examinations of children in the
Schools by the School Nurses 18393
(3) Number of individual children found unclean 294
(4) Number of children cleansed under arrangements
made by the Local Education Authority —
(5) Number of cases in which legal proceedings were
taken :—
(a) Under the Education Act, 1921 —
(b) Under School Attendance Bye-laws —
95