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The importance of dental care and early treatment seems to be now more
appreciated by the mothers, and it is becoming more easy to persuade them to take
their children to the Municipal Dental Hospital. The attendances of mothers and
children there totalled 1,411 as compared with 1,101 in the previous year. A special
feature is now being made of a hitherto largely neglected field of dental practice,
namely, orthodontics—the remedy of deformities of the jaws and mouth.
Assistance was given during the year by the Borough Council towards the cost
of maintenance of 29 children in convalescent homes. In 27 cases convalescence
was arranged through the Shoreditch Branch of the Invalid Children's Aid Association,
and in addition 21 cases were brought to the notice of the Guardians as being suitable
cases for convalescence.
The cases nursed under the arrangement with the District Nursing Association
numbered 42 children under five years. The total number of visits to children under
five was 627. In the majority of the cases under five years otorrhcea was the condition
for which nursing was required. Further particulars are given in the nursing list (p. 32).
The figures relating to the physical condition of Shoreditch children entering
the schools in 1929 have been obtained through the courtesy of the L.C.C. Medical
Staff.