Free dental clinics in North Carolina : traveling dental service for rural school children during the summer of 1918 . d, 742 Amount and class of treatment: Amalgam fillings 454 Cement fillings 72 Guttapercha fillings 4 Abscesses treated 64 Teeth extracted 725 Number children for whom teeth cleaned 185 Pyorrhea treated 1 Miscellaneous treatments ... 31 Children who needed nothing done 32 Number children unmanageable, 10 IN NORTH CAROLINA 11 WILSON COUNTY The clinics were conducted for sixweeks in Wilson County. The firsttwo weeks closed October 5, 1918, onaccount of the epidemic of
Free dental clinics in North Carolina : traveling dental service for rural school children during the summer of 1918 . d, 742 Amount and class of treatment: Amalgam fillings 454 Cement fillings 72 Guttapercha fillings 4 Abscesses treated 64 Teeth extracted 725 Number children for whom teeth cleaned 185 Pyorrhea treated 1 Miscellaneous treatments ... 31 Children who needed nothing done 32 Number children unmanageable, 10 IN NORTH CAROLINA 11 WILSON COUNTY The clinics were conducted for sixweeks in Wilson County. The firsttwo weeks closed October 5, 1918, onaccount of the epidemic of was resumed on Monday, No-vember 11, and completed on Satur-day, December 7, 1918. The health officer comments on thefact that for the first two weeks the clinics were held at the school-house while the schools were in ses-sion. The children and teachers werethus given the opportunity to see first-hand just what was being accom-plished; and to learn better the realobject of the clinics. Another reasonis that the school system of WilsonCounty is one of the best in the Stateand all the assistance and encourage-. Saratoga School, Wilson County, N. C. They have public transportation of school children at this school. Photo shows the chil-dren arriving at school and methods of transportation. The dentist is assisting the childrenout of the wagon in order to hurry one into the dental chair. period the per capita cost was nearlyseven cents less than for the last ofthe work. He says the reason for thiswas due to the small attendance atschool after school work was resumedand the quarantine lifted. This, hesays, was caused through fear of in-fluenza. But on the whole the Wilsonwork compares most favorably withthe other counties. In many respectsit was more successful. One chiefreason for this is because nearly all ment possible was given in the workby the county superintendent andeach and every teacher. One disappointing feature of theWilson work, and also of one or twoof the other c
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