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APPENDIX II.
Report on the Dental Treatment at the
School Clinic.
Mr. Taylor, the School Dentist, having been called up for
military service as an Officer in the Territorial Force early in
August, some delay was caused before Mr. Rivers Cole was
appointed as Temporary School Dentist, which fact partly
accounts for the diminished number of children examined and
treated.
During the year it was only found possible to visit one school;
the remainder treated were those cases left over from the previous
year who applied for treatment, and cases discovered by the
School Medical Inspectors at the ordinary routine examination,
together with cases sent up by teachers whose attendance at
school was interfered with on account of the bad condition of the
teeth.
The cases examined by the School Dentist and cases treated
at the Dental Clinic are given in the following tables.
565 children were treated at the Clinic during the year. 1,550
temporary and 175 permanent teeth were extracted, mostly by
means of a local anæsthetic.
In only two cases was it thought necessary to give a general
anæsthetic (Ethyl Chloride).
In addition to this 85 fillings were inserted.