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Note.—No order of merit is implied, nor attempted in this Table.
As the whole of the school population is under survey, there
will be definite statistics which will be comparable.
The time has surely come when there should be dental inspectors,
appointed by the Board of Education on the same lines
as the medical inspectors.
We who have not been trained in the dental work beyond a
certain point, are not in a position to assist or criticise the treatment
carried out, and unless there is some common basis on which
statistics can be framed a large proportion of them are fallacious.
There is a very defipite difficulty in getting the poorer children
from Isleworth to the Dental Clinic on the grounds of distance
and expense, and it is hoped that the institution of a Dental
Clinic at Redlees will make a considerable difference in this
respect.
During 1928 arrangements were made for emergency cases
to be dealt with every day without previous appointment, and the
results have been entirely satisfactory. Four hundred and sixteen
cases were sent to the Clinic during 1929, and of these 319 received
immediate treatment; 71 were referred for "Gas" appointments,
and were subsequently treated, whilst 26 required advice
only.
Emergency cases can be seen any afternodn, and are always
dealt with as soon as they arrive.