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(c) Minor Ailments and Diseases of the Skin.—Treatment
of minor ailments is carried out at the eight sessions of the school
clinics, all of which are in the charge .of a medical officer. The

First attendances number 3,356 against 3,757 in 1949, and
re-attendances 8,159 against 10,355, the total attendances being
11,515 against 14,122.
(d) Dental Treatment. — The position in regard to Dental
staffing remained as in recent years, the equivalent of 47/llths
whole-time Dental Surgeons being available for School Dental
work at 31st December. The facilities of the dental workshop
which was established by the Borough Council prior to the
appointed day, under the National Health Service Act, 1946, were
available to the School Dental Service, especially in regard to orthodontic
work. Mr. L. W. Elmer, Senior Dental Surgeon, submits
the following report —
" Once again it has been impossible to carry out many routine
inspections at the Schools. Parents have continued, in increasing
numbers, to ask for appointments for inspection and treatment, and
it is, in the main, the children of these parents who have received
treatment. A proportion of these children have, of course, only
attended for the relief of pain, but the greater number have asked
for and received complete treatment.
" The number of children inspected by the dental surgeons at
the Schools was 1,732. Of these it was found that 1,125 required
treatment. The specials, in number 4,951, are those whose parents
asked for and received appointments for treatment. 6,105 children
were treated making 12,474 attendances, an average of two each
during the year."