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In all that concerns the interests and welfare of the Staff with whom I work, never let
it be counted against me that I was a stammerer in words or actions, on, and, in their behalf.
A Personal Note.
Dr. E. H. T. NASH.
" Fare Thee Well."
" Sooner or later, must come the hour
when closest friends must say
FAREWELL."
In spite of the ups and downs inherent to persons of different personalities, one looks
into the vestibules of memories and concludes, notwithstanding the inevitable clash1 of opinions
between daily and close workers, the years can be counted as the roses each of us will gather in
the all too soon December of our life.
If a little breathing time be given ere we wend our westward way, obliterating the errors
we have made, our recollections will find no tinge of regrets.
Personally, if I have been a rung in the ladder of your climb to fame and nation known,
I am satisfied, the more so when I think, to use phraseology so peculiar to yourself " Peter will
be helpless to resist your choice which of the Golden Gates you will go thro', to enter one of the
Mansions specially reserved for those who spent their life, doing their Master's will, to all, and
especially to the " least among ye."
In the emotions of the inevitable parting may these sentiments realise my wish, that they
evoke reciprocal attunements.
Let neither of us waste time in vainly regretting the past, nor complain against the changes
that cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
" Long shall we seek his likeness—long in vain
And turn to all of him, which may remain,
Sighing that Nature formed one such man,
And broke the die—after moulding Nash.
(Byron).
" Si monumentum requiris circumspice."
I. COHEN.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ORTHODONTIC CONSULTANT.
Now that the time has again arrived when I have to place before you my report relative
to the past twelve months' activities of the Orthodontic Section of the Heston and Isleworth Public
Health Department, I feel that for two reasons it is opportune for me to consider the matter in
a somewhat broader manner than heretofore, and at the same time I think that it would be of
benefit to place on record some of the difficulties which have been successfully overcome.
The two reasons to which I allude are first the approaching retirement of Dr. E. H.
T. Nash, the School Medical Officer, to whose enthusiasm and hard work were due in no small
measure the original inception of the Orthodontic Clinic. Secondly because the autumn of 1937
saw the Orthodontic Section enter into its eighth working year and there is therefore every
justification for a review of the activities and developments which have come to my notice during
the five years in which I have held the post of Orthodontic Consultant at this pioneer clinic.
Clinic Orthodontics in Practice.
Looking back on the large number of cases which have now been successfully treated at
the Clinic I would draw your attention to the fact that in spite of some initial doubt these treatments
have always been carried out with most sparing employment of orthodontic appliances.
Fixed apparatus, entailing as it must a higher cost and a prolongation of treatment, is in my
opinion not merely undesirable but is definitely unnecessary in the case of school clinics.
By limiting treatment to that possible with simple removable apparatus it has been clearly
shown that there is no necessity for what would prove to be another source of expenditure, viz. —
rhe employment of a full time dental mechanic. Even taking into consideration the pro rata
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