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Dental Care
During 1970 there was an increase in the number of children
under school age brought to the clinics for inspection, 677 compared
to 607 in 1969 and more courses of treatment were completed, 336
compared to 297 in 1969, although the number of sessions devoted to
this work was about the same, 215 compared to 210 in 1969.
More treatment was also carried out for expectant and nursing
mothers for whom 140 fillings were carried out compared to 63 in
1969.
There are today, in this Borough at least, very few parents who
are not conscious of the importance of dental health for themselves
and their children and this is a tribute to the excellent work carried
out in Dental Health Education by Health Visitors and others, commencing
in the Ante-Natal Clinics and carried on by dental staff
throughout a child's school life.
Commenced Completed course
Examined treatment of treatment
Expectant and Nursing Mothers 35 29 25
Children under 5 677 380 336
Scaling Teeth Gen-
and Fil- other- Ex- eral Dentures X-
gum lings wise trac- anae- Rays
treat- cons- tions sthe-
ment erved tics Full Part
Expectant and
Nursing Mothers 16 140 — 16 2 — 5 4
Children under 5 ... 163 817 83 49 34 — — 2
Day Nurseries
The Authority had, at the end of the year, two Day Nurseries in
operation providing accommodation for 85 children under the age
of five years.
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