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Cards for the attention of children leaving school which were first
introduced during 1930 continued to be distributed throughout the year.
This card is in the following terms: —
" Shoreditch Borough Council."
The Care of the Teeth.
"To children leaving school.
"While you have been at school your teeth have been looked after for
you. Now that you are leaving school you must make your own arrangements.
Unless you do so, it is likely that your teeth will decay and your
general health suffer.
"In order that the good work done at school may continue, you should
place yourself under the care of a dental surgeon.
"Treatment can be obtained from any dental surgeon, of whom there
are several in Shoreditch, or at the Municipal Dental Hospital,
164, Kingsland Road, E. 2."
Since the Hospital was first placed upon a whole time basis in 1929
every Annual Report has contained reference to more spacious accommodation
to be provided in the new building to be erected in Laburnum Street
at the rear of the Model Welfare Centre. This building is now completed.
The top floor which is approached from a separate outside entrance has been
designed to accommodate the Dental Hospital, and at the time of writing
it is expected that it will be fully equipped and that it will be possible to
move in in the course of a few weeks.
The accommodation in Kingsland Road now about to be vacated has
been inadequate ever since work upon a whole time basis was commenced
in 1929. That so much excellent work has been done under very trying
conditions is encouraging as showing that the value of dental treatment
is appreciated by the inhabitants of Shoreditch.
The new premises will be more comfortable for both patients and staff,
and it is hoped that in its new home the Hospital will be the means of
extending still more widely throughout the Borough the benefits to health
that surely accrue to those who take care of their teeth.