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(g) Dental Defects - Treatment cf secondary and Technical Pupils
The work done for the Esæx County Council is shown below and
is not included in Table IV at the end of the report.
Inspections.
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 No.offered % Requiring
yrs. yrs. yrs. yrs. yrs. yrs. yrs. Treatment. Treatment.
120 229 249 262 201 46 1 705 64.0
Treatment.
No. of Attend children ances Extractions Temp. Perm. Teeth Teeth Anæsthetics. Local General Fillings Other Operations Permanent Parmanent Teeth. Teeth.
326 943 99 174 29 193 762 194
(h) Orthopædic and Postural Defects.- Details of the work done
under the scheme are given in the section dealing with Defective
Children.
(i) Heart Disease and Rheumatism. - The following is a report
on the work of the Rheumatism Clinic during 1944:-
Number of sessions 12
" " new cases 37
" " old cases 77
" discharged 27
" still under treatment 34
" of new cases with rheumatism or cardiac defect 6
Number excluded from school 2
" " half time school 1
" " from games and exercises 1
" to begin games and exercises 3
" referred for convalescent home treatment 3
" sent away 3
" referred to Open Air School 3
(j) Tuberculosis. The number of school children examined during
the year was - boys 45 and girls 40 - of which 17 boys and 14 girls
were referred by the school medical staff. 32 of the cases were
sent by private practitioners, and 22 were examined as contacts.
At the end of the year the live register of notified cases of
school age was - Pulmonary 32 Non-pulmonary 24.
(k) Artificial Sunlight Treatment. The number of children treated
was 133, making 1356 attendances.
8. infectious diseases.
Notification in the 5-15 years age group during 1944 was as
follows:- (1943 coses shown in parenthesis) - scarlet fever 124 (55)
diphtheria 9 (15), pneumonia 15 (19), erysipelas Nil (Nil),
Cerebro-spinal meningitis 1 (Nil), measles 208 (245), whooping
cough 55(27), dysentery 25 (37), Anterior Poliomyelitis Nil (1).
Non-notifiable infectious disease is chiefly brought to light
by the weekly returns made by Head Teachers under the local
"Regulations as to Infectious Diseases in Schools".
12.