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Attendances made by Children for Treatment.
The figure 15,565 shown in the Board's Table is not the gross figure of school children's
attendances at the Dental Clinic, which was 17,965, all of which were nominally " attendances for
treatment," but, although making such attendances, only 15,565 were treated physically, the
remainder being referred for gas, inspected, treatment postponed, etc., which latter classes of
attendances were counted as special inspections.
It will be seen that the number of attendances made by children for treatment showed an
appreciable increase over the figures for 1934.
Emergency Cases.
This branch of the dental service has now been running for five years and is much
appreciated.
In order to save children from suffering pain, a scheme was devised whereby any urgent
dental case could be referred by any Head Teacher to the Clinic at 1.45 p.m. on any day when the
schools were open. On coming into the Clinic these cases are dealt with in addition to the normal
appointments, and lake precedence over them.
During the year 1935, 869 cases were so referred by Head Teachers.
These facilities prove a great boon for teachers and children, and teachers are now using the
greatest care in only sending us cases of children in pain. Here and there a parent gets an
emergency ticket for a child not in pain, and in these cases, the teacher is always informed and left
to deal with the parent concerned.
I am very happy to be able to state at the outset that my experience as Consultant during
the past year permits me, without hesitation to endorse the several satisfactory statements which
I brought to your notice in my reports dealing with earlier years.
Throughout 1935 there has been maintained that increase in the number of new cases
treated, to which I drew your attention in my report for the year 1934. The total number of
patients passing through my hands during the last year equalled the number received in 1934.
Once again all prospective patients have received treatment with the minimum of delay, no
matter whether their attendance was the result of an earlier examination by the Clinic Staff in the
course of their normal routine dental inspections, or whether they were children who had been
brought direct to the Clinic voluntarily by their parents.
This comprehensiveness in the work carried out by the Orthodontic Section whereby all
cases of mallocclusion are ensured speedy treatment has always been a notable and exceptional
feature of the organisation of your Clinic. Looking back on the past year I find it once more a
matter for satisfaction to be able to place on record the fact that this desirable state of affairs
continues.
I. COHEN, L.D.S., R.C.S., ENG.
School Dental Surgeon.
ANNUAL REPORT OF ORTHODONTIC CONSULTANT.
Comprehensiveness of Treatment.
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