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Walthamstow 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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TABLE D.

MISCELLANEOUS CASES.

Diagnosis.Total.Result.
Cured.Improved.Still under Treatment or Observation.Left or Treatment not completedReferred to Hospital for Operation.Declined Treatment.
Wax: Foreign Body in Ear, etc.2525-----
Epistaxis55-----
Totals3030-----

(g) Dental Defects.—Staff.—Owing to the resignation of one
of the Assistant Dental Surgeons, the full establishment was not
available for the whole year.
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Casual Treatment.—Treatment is given between 11 a.m. and
12 noon on Mondays and Fridays, and between 10 a.m. and 12 noon
on Wednesdays. These patients should not be treated in any ideal
school dental scheme inasmuch as they are mostly patients suffering
from toothache and for whom, presumably, the parents have previously
been offered, and have refused, treatment. If treatment
had been accepted, the toothache would probably have been
obviated.
Propaganda: Folders.—Copies of the illustrated folder, "The
Story of a Tooth," and the pamphlet, "What about your Teeth,"
issued by the Dental Board of the United Kingdom, have been
given to the senior children.
Treatment of Secondary and Technical 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.