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Further Statistics—Dental Clinic.
Deductions from Annual Report:—
Averages.
Each patient pays 1.7 visits to Clinic.
Each patient receives 1.6 extractions.
„ 0.5 local injections.
„ 0.4 gas administrations.
„ 1.0 metal fillings.
,, 0.4 dressings, scalings,
and odd work.
Each session has 10.7 patients.
Total work per session 17.1 extractions.
,, 5.3 novocain anaesthesia.
„ 4.3 gas anaesthesia.
„ 10.7 fillings.
,, 4.3 dressings.
At each school inspection 196 children are examined.
Defective Children.
The particulars of the 448 children classified as defective
appear in Table III. It will there be noted that the
majority of these children come under the classification of
"delicate children," who because of their medical condition
are necessarily kept under constant supervision. This
Table III also shows those children who attend residential
schools and special day schools. As far as one can judge,
this classification is a complete one of the defective children
in Bromley, but with the general flux of population, there
may be isolated cases that have escaped our notice, or are
attending private day schools in the Borough.
Bromley possesses at Shortlands a special day school
for educable. mentally defective children, but is dependent
upon other Education Authorities for children otherwise
specially classified. The average annual cost to the Education
Authority for the maintenance of defective children in
special institutions, or day schools, is £770. This sum
covers the cost of: two blind children; four deaf children;
and three epileptic children, in residential schools. Eight
children attend special day schools in London provided by
the L.C.C. for the physically defective, and partially blind
and deaf. During 1930 two heart cases were in a special