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DENTAL SERVICE.
Mr. King reports:—
"Much progress has been made during the past year.
Inspections of the children at school has been stepped up and as
a result, a considerable amount of conservative treatment has
been carried out. Where parental consent has been forthcoming,
practically every child so examined has been restored to dental
fitness.
In August, owing to retirement, we lost the valuable services
of Mr. S. Russell Edey, who attended for three sessions weekly.
This depletion of staff was, very fortunately, counteracted by the
appointment, in November, of Mrs. Lindsay, a full-time Dental
Officer, and I now visualise a vastly improved and more comprehensive
service.
The Maternity and Child Welfare facilities have continued to
operate very satisfactorily. During the year 487 presented
themselves for treatment and have received all operative and
prosthetic treatment necessary to restore dental health.
Conservative and surgical treatment has been given priority,
and orthodontic treatment has of necessity been limited as each
case takes up a considerable amount of time.
When the contemplated re-opening and modernisation of the
clinic at Princes Plain is completed it will enable a much better
dental service to be given to the Borough, as a clinic will then
be situated at each end of the town and the time saved in
travelling will be welcomed by both parents and school teachers
alike.
I look to 1953 with every confidence. To the Radiologists and
Staff of Bromley Hospital, I again express my grateful thanks for
their very willing co-operation and help during the past year.
For details of inspections and treatments, reference should
be made to the Statistical tables at the end of the main report."
OPHTHALMIC CLINIC.
I am indebted to Dr. Eric Lyle for this report:—
"I am pleased to be able to report that the work of the School
Eye Clinic has gone on steadily and in a happy atmosphere
during the year 1952.
Three sessions have been held regularly each week on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Attendance has been good.
The work consists mainly of the correction of refractive errors,
the treatment of squints and the treatment of minor diseases of