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I submit herewith remarks and comments from individual
reports of four of the Dental Surgeons :—
Mr. Dick reports :—
A definite fall in numbers on the School rolls has been a
consolation by reducing the number of extractions required, and
thus allowing a little more time for conservative work.
The difference is felt in the daily work rather than shown to
any great extent in the figures at present.
The attendance on routine inspection remains good, but an
even better attendance is desirable, as this would tend to decrease
the number of Special Cases sent up, thus causing less interference
with the Routine work.
The Head Teachers and Class Teachers, I am convinced, have
a powerful influence over parents and children, and are able to
persuade many who are indifferent to attend the Clinic. Their
continued co-operation and help is greatly valued, and in fact
indispensable.
Miss Gubb reports :—
In reviewing the work of the year 1934, there is little difference
of any note from the preceding years.
The Routine School Dental Inspections have been carried
out in all the Schools and Dental Treatment at the Clinic.
A fresh effort has been made to bring pressure to bear on the
"Persistent Refusals" each year, in the hope that it may eventually
lessen the number of "Specials" who interfere with Routine
work, and who do not attend for "Dental treatment," but merely
use the clinics as an emergency measure for the relief of acute
pain.
It is inevitable, of course, that there must be always a fairly
large number of Specials due to unavoidable causes and epidemic
maladies affecting the school children themselves at all seasons
of the year.
I would like to express my thanks again to the Head Teachcrs
for their very valuable help and co-operation during the School
Inspections and for their helpful propaganda in dealing with the
parents.
Mr. Heywood reports
The persistence, during 1934, of the large number of refusals
has been the least encouraging feature of the work accomplished
at Balaam Street Clinic. These cases are invariably serious ones,
and they have materially offset other and more encouraging
developments.
With the inclusion into the area of the Grange Road Special
School, the question of anaesthesia has become acute. A very
large number of cases have had to be referred for hospital treatment,
and those children who were able to receive local anaesthesia
have taken up such a proportion of working time that the
figures for the clinic bear little relationship to the time which has
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