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"Casual" Treatment.—Treatment is given between 11 and
12 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. These patients
should not be treated in any ideal school dental scheme inasmuch
as they are mostly patients suffering from toothache and for whom
the parents have previously been offered, and have refused, routine
dental treatment. If treatment had been accepted, the toothache
would probably have been obviated.
Propaganda: (a) Folders.—Copies of the illustrated folder,
"The story of a tooth," issued by the Dental Board of the United
Kingdom, are to be requisitioned as and when necessary by Head
Teachers for distribution in the senior schools.
The folders are also to be distributed at the dental inspections
held at senior schools.
(b) Demonstrations.—A series of lecture-demonstrations was
given by lecturers of the Dental Board of the United Kingdom
during the period February 17th to 28th.
Senior schools only were visited and a total of 59 lecturedemonstrations
were held.
It is hoped to repeat this valuable form of propaganda every
two or three years.
Treatment of Secondary and Technical School Pupils.—The work
done for the Essex County Council is shown below and is not included
in Table V, at the end of the report.