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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

Leyton 1945

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]

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School Dental Service.

Table: Findings of Dental Inspection.The following table shows in statistical form the results of school dental inspection in individual schools and over the whole area.

Findings of Dental Inspection.

The following table shows in statistical form the results of school dental inspection in individual schools and over the whole area.

School.Number inspected.Number referred for treatment.Number accepting treatment.Percentage of acceptances.
Boys.Girls.Boys.GLtIb.
Canterbury31616618510326090.2
Cann Hall229176947914483.23
Capworth21235113425525766.06
Church..................
Connaught..................
Da vies Lane3751861796915059.1
Downsell28424323019834680.8
Farmer39618025610725269.4
Goodall21623316917422866.5
Kirkdale40221471885.7
Knotts Green423528303865.5
Lea Bridge253119223175.6
May ville1802969115413153.5
Newport5482042869523762.2
Norlington2254988226625573.2
Sybourn42721431914833671.9
St. Joseph's4211663538068.9
Tom Hood..................
Trumpington14114179769050.8
3,6983,0922,2281,8362,85370.1

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Report by the Authority's Senior Dental Officer
(A. E. Hall, L.D.S.)
General.
Conditions during the early part of the year under review were
still abnormal due to enemy action, and the continued evacuation
of the school children ; but with the end of the war and the return
of many of the children conditions and attendances rapidly improved.
The acceptance of treatment rate over the whole year was
70.1 per cent., an increase over the previous year of 9 per cent.
It was noticed that a big proportion of the regular attendants
also accepted the offer of evacuation.
The dental staff consists of two dental surgeons and two
dental attendants, being one dental surgeon and one dental attendant
short by comparison with the immediate pre-war period.