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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 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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TABLE V—Dental Defects. Elementary Schools.
| (1) Number of Children who were: | (7) Administration of general anaesthetics for extractions | 572 | |||
| (a) Inspected by the Dentist:— | |||||
| Aged:— | |||||
| 5 | 149 | ||||
| 6 | 458 | ||||
| 7 | 444 | (8) Extractions:— On account of overcrowding | |||
| 8 | 520 | ||||
| Routine 9 | 483 Total: 3817 | ||||
| Age 10 | 492 | (a) Permanent On account of advanced decay | 114 | ||
| Groups. 11 | 366 | ||||
| 12 | 329 | ||||
| 13 | 315 | ||||
| 14 | 261 | (b) Permanent | 325 | ||
| (b) Specials | 387 | ||||
| (c) Temporary | 2829 | ||||
| GRAND TOTAL | 4204 | ||||
| (2) Found to require treatment | 3252 | Total | 3268 | ||
| (3) Actually treated | 2203 | ||||
| Inspection | 52 | ||||
| Treatment | 386 | ||||
| (9) Other operations:— | |||||
| Total | 438 | ||||
| (a) Dressings | 100 | ||||
| (5) Attendances made by children for treatment | 3501 | (b) Application of Silver Nitrate | 106 | ||
| (c) Scalings | 147 | ||||
| (6) Fillings:— | (d) Root treatment | 3 | |||
| Permanent teeth | 3767 | (e) Miscellaneous | — | ||
| Temporary teeth | 724 | ||||
| Total | 4491 | Total | 356 | ||