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The defects found consisted chiefly of Malnutrition, Dental
Caries, Uncleanliness, and Enlarged Tonsils and Adenoids. This
last defect, in fact, accounted for 21 per cent, of the total defects.
Miss Gubb reports on the Dental Examination and Treatment
at this Nursery School as follows:—
The first Dental Inspection of children at the Rebecca
Cheetham Nursery School was carried out at the end of October,
1931.
98 children between the ages of 2 and 4 years out of the 120
on the roll were examined. Out of this number 33 were found
to require some treatment, mostly the filling of the second milk
molars. A few children required one or several extractions for
septic teeth and septic conditions of the mouth, but on the whole
the children had very clean mouths and functional teeth. With
the exception of a few children all had well developed jaws and
the normally erupted dentition for their respective ages.
It was very satisfactory to see that the children were given
a sufficient quantity of hard food in their diet to give their jaws
and teeth the necessary stimulus for growth, and the mid-day
meal completed with fruit, acted as a self cleanser to the mouth
and teeth.
The parents of these very young children are not yet aware
of the importance of conservative work in the Temporary Dentition,
and would favour extraction as the only treatment, but this
is not to be surprised at as the parents of the elementary school
age children are still in many cases adverse to conservative work
in the mouth.
I should like to take this opportunity of thanking Miss
Whittingham for her kind help and co-operation in carrying out
the inspection.
(19) Higher Educational Institutions.
The Institutions referred to here comprise—
(1) The Municipal College (Provided by the Authority).
(2) The West Ham Secondary School (Provided by the
Authority).
(3) St. Angela's High School for Girls (Ursuline Convent)
(Aided by the Authority).
(4) The Plaistow Secondary School (Provided by the
Authority).
(5) The West Ham High School for Girls (Aided by the
Authority).
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