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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
| Secondary Schools | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1.) Number of Children who were: | (5) Extractions:— | ||||
| Permanent teeth | 274 | ||||
| (1) Inspected by the Dentist:— Aged:— | Temporary teeth | 49 | |||
| Routine Age Groups. | 11 49 | Total: | 1097 | Total | 323 |
| 12 141 | |||||
| 13 205 | (6) Administrations of general anaesthetics for extractions | 50 | |||
| 14 225 | |||||
| 15 235 | (7) Other operations:— | ||||
| 16 164 | Permanent teeth | 73 | |||
| 17 65 | Temporary teeth | - | |||
| 18 9 | Total | 73 | |||
| 19 4 | |||||
| Specials | 1 | (8) Extractions:— | |||
| GRAND TOTAL | 1098 | On account of overcrowding | |||
| (a) Permanent | 61 | ||||
| On account of advanced decay | |||||
| (2) Found to require treatment | 892 | (b) Permanent | 213 | ||
| (c) Temporary | 49 | ||||
| (3) Actually treated | 455 | Total | 323 | ||
| (2) Half-days devoted to:— | |||||
| Inspection | 14 | ||||
| Treatment | 157 | (9) Other operations:— | |||
| Total | 171 | (a) Dressings | |||
| Permanent | 55 | ||||
| Temporary | - | ||||
| (b) Application of Silver | |||||
| (3) Attendances made by children for treatment | 828 | Nitrate | |||
| Permanent | - | ||||
| (4) Fillings:— | Temporary | - | |||
| Permanent teeth | 1504 | Total | 55 | ||
| Temporary teeth | - | ||||
| Total | 1504 | (c) Scalings | 18 | ||
| (d) Root treatment | - | ||||
Table VI—Uncleanliness and Verminous Conditions.
| (1) | Average number of visits per school made during the year by the School Nurses | 64 |
| (2) | Total number of examinations of children in the Schools by the School Nurses | 17860 |
| (3) | Number of individual children found unclean | 232 |
| (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 | - |