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children complaining of toothache and requiring extractions can
be dealt with at once.
(3) Particulars of the percentage acceptances for each Department
are circulated to the schools by the Director of Education each
month.
(4) Your Authority has decided to appoint a third dental
surgeon.
Children for whom treatment has not been accepted at the first
dental inspection are not now offered systematic re-inspection and
treatment. Such children, however, are still eligible for emergency
treatment as "casuals."
Mrs. Thorne, L.D.S., reports as follows:—
"The past year has seen some further changes in the dental
clinics. The South district has had included in its area the following
schools:—Forest Road Infants', Junior Boys' and Girls', and
William McGuffie Senior Boys' and Girls', adding over 1,400
children to the number of the previous year.
"In accordance with the advice of the Inspector from the Board
of Education, there has been a change in the organisation of the
clinics in order to further two purposes. Firstly, so that there
will always be an anaesthetist when general anaesthetics are
administered, and secondly, to reduce the number of casual or
special cases. The latter is to be effected by lessening the opportunity
for the treatment of these cases from every session to three
mornings a week.
"General anaesthetics are given on three sessions a week when
the clinics amalgamate, the treatment being carrid on as team
work. This has been in operation for some time. These sessions
are well attended and the arrangement works satisfactorily. This
reorganisation will undoubtedly, to a certain extent, affect the
numbers treated, which result may be more noticeable in a full
year.
"Under the new scheme, when both conservative and radical
treatment is called for, the child has to attend twice, whereas
formerly the case was completed at one visit. The anaesthetic
sessions are always entirely for "Gas Extractions." Also may
be mentioned the allocation of one session a week for the treatment
of Maternity and Child Welfare cases.