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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 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]

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Table: TABLE V-Dental Defects. Secondary Schools.

TABLE V-Dental Defects. Secondary Schools.

(1)Number of Children who were:(7)Administrations of general anaesthetics for extractions13
(a)Inspected by the Dentist:-
Aged:-
11 82Total:1144
12 198(8)Extractions:-
13 193On account of overcrowding
14 210
Routine 15 201(a)Permanent25
Age 16 178On account of advanced decay
Groups. 17 57
18 25
19 -(b)Permanent135
(b)Specials-
GRAND TOTAL1144(c)Temporary52
Total212
(2)Found to require treatment882
(3)Actually treated398(9)Other operations:-
(4)Half-days devoted to:-
Inspection14
Treatment118
Total132(a)Dressings39
(b)Application of Silver Nitrate-
(5)Attendances made by children for treatment679
(6)Fillings:-(c)Scalings53
Permanent teeth1110(d)Root treatment-
Temporary teeth-
Total1110Total92

Table: Table VI-Uncleanliness and Verminous Conditions.

Table VI-Uncleanliness and Verminous Conditions.

(1)Average number of visits per school made during the year by the School Nurses68
(2)Total number of examinations of children in the Schools by the School Nurses16171
(3)Number of individual children found unclean240
(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-