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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 1935
[Report of the School Medical Officer for Finchley]
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TABLE V—Dental Defects
| Elementary Schools | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) Number of Children who were: | (5) Extractions:— | ||||
| Permanent teeth | 313 | ||||
| (1) Inspected by the Dentist:— Aged:— | Temporary teeth | 2672 | |||
| Total | 2985 | ||||
| Routine Age Groups. | 5 41 | Total: | 1416 | (6) Administrations of general anaesthetics for extractions | 626 |
| 6 175 | |||||
| 7 140 | |||||
| 8 197 | (7) Other operations:— | ||||
| 9 228 | Permanent teeth | 103 | |||
| 10 220 | Temporary teeth | 44 | |||
| 11 156 | Total | 147 | |||
| 12 129 | |||||
| 13 62 | |||||
| 14 68 | (8) Extractions:— | ||||
| Specials | 531 | On account of overcrowding | |||
| GRAND TOTAL | 1947 | (a) Permanent | 91 | ||
| (2) Found to require treatment | 1677 | On account of advanced decay— | |||
| (3) Actually treated | 1308 | (b) Permanent | 222 | ||
| (c) Temporary | 2672 | ||||
| (2) Half-days devoted to:— | Total | 2985 | |||
| Inspection | 20 | ||||
| Treatment | 234 | ||||
| Total | 254 | (9) Other operations:— | |||
| (a) Dressings | |||||
| Permanent | 63 | ||||
| Temporary | 2 | ||||
| (3) Attendances made by children for treatment | 2569 | (b) Application of Silver Nitrate | |||
| (4) Fillings:— | Permanent | 4 | |||
| Temporary | 40 | ||||
| Permanent teeth | 1962 | Total | 109 | ||
| Temporary teeth | 294 | ||||
| Total | 2256 | (c) Scalings | 31 | ||
| (d) Root treatment | 7 | ||||