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during the year enabling the Dental Service to be expanded considerably
and at the end of the year all three main Dental Clinics
were fully staffed. A programme of routine dental inspections was
carried out in schools and of the 8,747 children seen at these inspections,
4,425 were found to require treatment.
The clinic premises at Hulse Avenue, Collier Row were
extended to provide a new modern Dental Clinic and this was opened
in July 1962.
The statistics relating to the School Dental Service are shown
in the table an the end of this report.
Physiotherapy
Mrs. B. V. Wand, M.C.S.P., Physiotherapist at the Harold Hill
Health Centre, has submitted the following report of her work
during the year:—
In 1962 the Clinic showed a 15% increase in numbers of
attendances, the total figure being 2,472, as compared with 2,136
in 1961. There were 139 new patients and 57 were discharged.
190 Physiotherapy Sessions were held and 13 Specialist Clinics.
Patients were referred about equally by the School Medical
Officers and the Family Doctors of the area, but some were sent by
Consultants or were transferred from other Clinics.
The type of work done was treatment mainly for orthopaedic
foot conditions, particularly in the age group 6—12 years, and a
high percentage of those treated showed evidence of being affected
by the present day trend in "fashion shoes." This was demonstrated
increasingly by boys as well as girls. Other conditions included
genu varum and genu valgum, soft tissue injurie round the
knee joint, spinal defects, mainly postural, torticollis and the residual
effects of Poliomyelitis. Neuromuscular defects and conditions
treated by breathing exercises, for example, chronic bronchitis,
bronchiectasis, asthma and mouth-breathing, comprised the main
part of the remainder.
The percentage of failures to keep appointments was somewhat
lower than in 1961.
Mr. A. M. A. Moore, F.R.C.S., Surgeon to the London Hospitalcontinued
his appointment as Visiting Consultant to the Clinic.
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