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patients, the same waiting room for interviewing parents, and the services
of the same record clerk. In addition, it would provide sanitary accommodation
next to the waiting room—a very necessary improvement, and
provide double walls as shown with the object of making the walls more
sound proof. A further improvement embodied in the proposed plan is
that the whole dental annexe will be separated from the rest of the
building.
Your Education Authority thereupon decided that, subject to
approval of the Board of Education, arrangements be made as
follows :—
(1) Appointment of an additional Dentist to be designated
Senior Dental Surgeon.
(2) Appointment of an additional School Nurse to act as
Dental Assistant.
(3) Provision of an additional Dental Surgery by altering the
existing premises at Park House Clinic.
The Board of Education approved items 1 and 3, but suggested
the appointment of a full time Dental Attendant instead of a
School Nurse as recommended in item 2. As the Board was
definitely opposed to the employment of a School Nurse as Dental
Attendant your Education Authority decided to appoint an
unqualified Dental Attendant.
In September Mr. A. E. Hall, L.D.S., was appointed as Senior
Dental Surgeon and commenced duty on 14th November, 1938.
Report by the Authority's Senior Dental Surgeon.
Development.
Good progress has been made during 1938 in the development
of the School Dental Service in Leyton by the opening of a new
Dental Surgery at Park House Health Clinic, and by the appointment
of a Senior Dental Officer and Dental Attendant, bringing
the numerical strength of the staff up to : The Senior Dental
Officer, two full-time School Dental Officers, two Dental Nurses
and one Dental Attendant. With a school population, including
Secondary Schools, of 13,240, this gives one dental officer to 4,413
children, thus more nearly approaching the conditions of a satisfactory
dental scheme as laid down by the Board of Education.
Factors likely to upset this ratio in the future are the raising of the
school leaving age, and an increase in the percentage rates of
acceptances for treatment.