Report of the Department of Health / City of Montreal.

  • Montréal (Québec). Department of Public Health.
Date:
[1940]
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Credit: Report of the Department of Health / City of Montreal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table XX Report of the Municipal dental clinics Number of children treated. 17,198 Treatments: extraction. 9,964 prophylaxis. 6,000 filling. 2,409 others. 4,103 Total. 22,336 Number of teeth extracted. 30,763 Number of teeth filled. 1,972 Number of cases completed. 650 It should be noted that the “Red Cross” and the “Junior League,” which sponsors the dental clinic of the “Griffintown Club,” in collaboration with the Department of Health, have treated dentally pupils of a number of schools of the Protestant Board and that a French-speaking dentist of the “Red Cross” has cared for several pupils of the French-Catholic schools of Montreal. III. ORTHODONTIA CLINIC An important improvement to be noted is the organization of an orthodontic dental clinic. The Director of the Department of Health and the administrators of the city wishing to see a development of Hygiene in Montreal have established this clinic. Due to an understanding between the dental faculty of the Uni¬ versity of Montreal and the Director of the Department of Health, this clinic was opened at the school of Dentistry, which is situated at 1570 St. Hubert St., on February 12th, 1940. The clinic is