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(b) Sunlight.—Sunlight treatment was given at the Hale End
Clinic to 15 children under 5 years of age for 155 treatments.
(c) Priority Dental Treatment.—The Senior Dental Officer
reports as follows :—
"Last year I suggested that the number of expectant and
nursing mothers appeared to have reached its peak and it would
seem that this assumption was correct as there has been a considerable
drop in the number of mothers and young children referred
for dental treatment.
Of those referred a higher proportion of both mothers and
children needed conservative work only and fewer mothers had
need of extractions and dentures. This is a pleasant contrast to the
early days of this service when the attendance of an expectant or
nursing mother automatically involved large numbers of extractions
and the provision of artificial dentures. Now the majority of those
attending for conservative work are those whose teeth were attended
to in school and in the Forces."
The number of Dental Sessions have been as follows:—
1954 187
1953 242
1952 193