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East Ham 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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REPORT ON THE WORK DONE IN THE SCHOOL
DENTAL CLINIC.
To the School Medical Officer,
County Borough of East Ham
Education Committee.
Sir,
I bey to submit to you my report for the year 1930.
The age groups inspected were from 5 years to 11 years inclusive.
The number of children inspected was 13,613, and the
number referred for treatment was 9,203. The special cases,
those referred by the School Medical Officers, Nurses, and
Teachers, numbered 187. These are cases which do not come
under the routine inspections, being usually children suffering from
abscesses, or oral sepsis. Any school child suffering from tooth
ache, on obtaining a form from the Head Teacher, can be seen
and treated at the Dental Clinic.
Details will be found in the following table:—
TABLE IV.
Group IV.—Dental Defects.
| (1) | Number of Children who were:— | ||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | Inspected by the dentist:— | ||||||||||||||||||
| Age. Routine Age Groups. | Specials see note d) | Grand Total. | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Total. | 12 | 13 | 14 | |||||||||
| 1666 | 1040 | 2131 | 2175 | 2459 | 2436 | 806 | 13613 | — | — | — | 187 | 13800 | |||||||
| (b) | Found to require treatment | 9203. | |||||||||||||||||
| (c) | Actually treated | 3167. | |||||||||||||||||
| (d) | Re-treated during the year as the result of periodical examination | 2700 | |||||||||||||||||
| (2) | Halt-days devoted to:— | ||||||||||||||||||
| Inspection | 107 | Total | 788 | ||||||||||||||||
| Treatment | 681 | ||||||||||||||||||
| (3) | Attendances made by children for treatment | 7250. | |||||||||||||||||
| (4) | Fillings:— | ||||||||||||||||||
| Permanent teeth | 1428 | Total | 2295 | ||||||||||||||||
| Temporary teeth | 867 | ||||||||||||||||||
| (5) | Extractions:— | ||||||||||||||||||
| Permanent teeth | 7161 | Total | 8208 | ||||||||||||||||
| Temporary teeth | 7492 | ||||||||||||||||||
| (6) | Administrations of general anaesthetics for extractions | 376. | |||||||||||||||||
| (7) | Other operations:— | ||||||||||||||||||
| Permanent teeth | 379 | Total | 688 | ||||||||||||||||
| Temporary teeth | 309 | ||||||||||||||||||