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West Ham 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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which cannot be treated is time wasted. The present number of
treatment sessions possibly represents the number which is
necessary to treat the defects found at the present number of
inspection sessions. Any increase in the latter will have to be
accompanied by a corresponding increase in the number of treatment
sessions. Table XXI also shows the increase through the
years of the average number of children inspected per session
devoted to inspection. It has been shown that the keeping of
detailed records of the findings at these inspections is not
Table XXIII.
School Dentistry. England and Wales, 1936.
| Fillings: | |
|---|---|
| Permanent teeth | 1,45,051 |
| Temporary teeth | 105,418 |
| Total | 1,250,469 |
| Fillings in temporary teeth per 1,000 inspected | 30.3 |
| Extractions: | |
| Permanent teeth | 545,886 |
| Temporary teeth | 2,441,784 |
| Total | 2,987,670 |
| Extractions of permanent teeth per 1,000 inspected | 157.5 |
| Other operations | 503,180 |
necessary, and the gradual increase in the figures in column 6
probably represents the change in the attitude of dentists to this
question. As column 7 shows, there has been little change
throughout the years in the average number of children treated per
treatment session. There is, on the whole, a tendency for more
detailed work to be carried out, and this figure will probably not
tend to rise—apart from the operation of extraneous factors.
Details of the actual treatment carried out are contained
in Table XXII. The most conspicuous feature shown in this table
is the fact that there has been a rather rapid increase in the
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