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proportion of patients postpone their visits until their teeth are so far decayed as
to causc pain or to make extraction an urgent matter on grounds of health.
To deal with arrears of work, other than dentures, the services of a temporary
Dental Surgeon were engaged for five sessions each week. Mr. Metcalf, L.D.S.,
R.C.S. (Eng.), was the gentleman appointed. He commenced duty on 3rd November,
and was still attending the hospital at the end of the year.
The Committee also gave instructions that children of school age should only
receive orthodontic treatment at the Dental Hospital, as these children were able
to attend the London County Council school dental clinics.

It will be necessary early in the New Year to consider the steps necessary to
be taken in view of the fact that it does not appear to be possible for the regular
staff to deal with the number of patients who are eligible under the Council's original
resolution and who wish to receive treatment.
Discussion upon the arrangements referred to in the last Annual Report for
the rehousing of the Hospital continued throughout the year.
The scheme finally decided upon was the erection of a building on the vacant
site at the rear of the Model Welfare Centre. The semi-basement to accommodate
breast-feeding and light clinics, the ground floor a Women's Hospital, and the top
floor the new Dental Hospital. Each floor is to be self-contained, and there is to be a
separate entrance from the street to each.
A plan of the proposed new building appears as a frontispiece to this Report.
SHOREDITCH MUNICIPAL DENTAL HOSPITAL, 1930.
Report by Mr. H. L. Davies, L.D.S., R.C.S. (England).
The number of patients of all kinds and the number of attendances made by
them has steadily increased throughout the year. A temporary part-time Assistant
Dental Surgeon was engaged in November to deal with arrears of work which were
by this means much reduced by the end of the year.
The policy of the Hospital has been "Hospital treatment with private practice
civility," and all members of the staff have worked in this spirit.
The present premises served their purpose for a part-time Hospital, but they
are no longer adequate. With the prospect of a new and up-to-date building in
sight, there is every reason to believe that the Hospital will be better attended and
more popular than ever.
It is hoped that the equipment of the new Hospital will include an X-Ray
apparatus, as more accurate and quicker results would be obtained than is possible
under the present arrangement of referring patients to St. Leonard's Hospital.