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who actually come to the surgery. But we now inspect children at day nurseries,
for example, on a twice-yearly basis. 79 per cent of these were found in a
recent survey not to need any treatment at all, which is excellent.
Miss D. Smith, one of our senior dental officers, has carried out a full
epidemiological survey of children at all our day nurseries in December. Unfortunately
the results were not to hand by the time this report had to be
written. This valuable survey will provide us with a clear cut picture of
dental health in this group of children, immediately prior to the reorganisation
of the N.H.S. in 1974.