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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Brentford and Chiswick 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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group v—contd.
(b) Found to require treatment 4175
(c) Actually treated 2972
(2) Half-days devoted to—
Inspections 25|-
Treatment 472
Lectures 10 J
Total 508
(3) Attendances made by children for treatment 5561
(4) Fillings—
Permanent Teeth 3959
Temporary Teeth 869
Total 4828
(5) Extractions—
Permanent Teeth 794
Temporary Teeth 3267
Total 4061
(6) Administration of general anaesthetics for
extractions 1881
(7) Other operations—
Permanent Teeth 340
Temporary Teeth 38
Total 378
Root fillings 24
Crowns 7
Group VI.-—Uncleanliness and Verminous Conditions.
(i) Average number of visits per school made during the
year by the School Nurses 17
(ii) Total number of examinations of children in the
Schools by the School Nurses 37501
(iii) Number of individual children found unclean 433
(iv) Number of children cleansed under arrangements
made by the Local Education Authority 131
(v) Number of eases in which Legal Proceedings were
taken—
(a) Under Education Act, 1921 8
(b) Under School Attendance Bye-laws 12