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(h) Ear Diseases. Table IV. Group I.
Out of 82 cases referred, 71 received treatment at the Clinic
and four were treated privately.
Employment Certificates.
The children were only employed in accordance with the
Byelaws under the Employment of Children Act, 1903, as
amended by Section 13 of the Education Act, 1913.
Employment certificates were given in 68 cases.
The children examined were between 12 and 14 years.
During the last year only one child had to have his Employment
certificate cancelled on account of ill health."
Report of School Surgeon Dentist.
Mr. A. MacGregor Whyte, L.D.S., reports as follows:—
"The Routine Inspection of children in all Elementary
Schools was completed towards the end of November. At the
Special School, all children in attendance were inspected and
treatment offered where necessary, instead of Routine Age
Groups only.
The Routine Age Groups for Inspection in school have now
been increased to include all ages under 10 years, and selected
cases aged 10 years who obtained treatment during previous
years.
Inspection and Treatment of older age groups are available
at Clinic daily at 11 a.m., the treatment being limited to extraction
of teeth and other simple operations. Recommendations
to Private Practitioners and Dental Hospitals are given
where extensive filling, regulation or denture work is necessary.
Subsequent investigation indicates that in most of these cases
the treament has been duly obtained.
Attendances of parents and guardians, both at School
Inspection and the 11 o'clock Clinic for consultation and advice,
have greatly increased, and much additional time has been
spent, but as a result there is a marked improvement in attendance
and regularity of revisiting the Clinic by the children.
Parents seem also to be more interested in and appreciative of
the treatment carried out.
Thirty-eight afternoon sessions were devoted to Inspection
at the schools.
Of 2,486 children inspected, 1,942 (78 per cent.) were notified
as Dentally Defective, 22 per cent. being free from caries or
not requiring Dental treatment.
These figures indicate a decrease of 8 per cent. on the
Dentally Defective Index Figure of the preceeding year.
214 children found defective and notified, await offer of
treatment during 1924. This delay is unavoidable owing to the
annual increase in the number of children to be inspected, the
scheme being to retain the older groups in addition to' new
entrants.
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