The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-03
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 appalling to contemplate the eondi- tions that would exist in these mouths as the children grew ups It present ed very Interesting material te work with.
 It will take q long period of pub= He education before the mouths of the incoming children to our first grade will show any great degree of Improvement. From birth to five or six years Of age they are entirely under the home Influence and are permitted to eat foods, especially sweets that are conducive to decay, and mouth eleanllness is hot eenpui- sery. Slowly but surely the public school education will seee back Into the homes, and with the aid of the older children and pamphlets 1t is our hope that eventually the moaths of these children will hresent a much 1apreEed condition.
 Corps of ASg4enfsts Nsereased
 Tn September, 191S, six additional hygienlsts were added to the corps to advance the work 10 cover the first three grades This gave a sufficient 4asazaaSer oR workers until 1917, when six Eaore were added, 50 that this care could be given to all the ehil- dreA in the first five grades, num- De<sng about 45,oo9,
 In January, 1918, the parocAla3 schools petitzoned the Board of Hea4sh and also the Board of LAppor- GonHneRt to have this system extend ed to them as q health measure. This petition was granted ard 1n Septe4n- Der six more hygie4slsts were added to the corps for this purpose making time these Wonea have unds Y their care the mouths Of nearly twenty thousand children in the first five grades.
 We have also employed three women dentists, who are filling the small cavities in the first permanent gaolars for the children in the first and second grades. Many of these children, on entering school, have small cavities developing h :Asss most important teeth, and In order that all the children may start on an equal basis in the future prevention of den are eligible and are encouraged to nave these small cavities filled
 Examination of Eaf1E1 Graffe
 Children
 Tn order to prove definitely the ,vaaus of edIrcafion and prevention it was necessary to have data Of the condition of the mouths of children ttn 6. higher grade who had never had the advantage of ppophylaot1c Trsa+menGs, booth brush drills and sduoat1nn in month hygiene The children of the fifth grade wera Cnos- en as the control class, and this re port Will present the comparison ot their naC11th oond1IOns with the pres ent fifth graders, who have had pro phylaGG3o treatments and eda1cat1on dr uaoG1Ih hygiene for t14s first five wears of Thefr school life. They have had mo repair work provided for them and the educational side has beer three aTl1aTters of the work Of 9he dRTta1 hygiene corps
 In making this dErnDnsstrat1or I, was not QUIT expectation to make 2 startling reduction i'm the parcenta gt oR Gianta1 decay the main object be ing to show up the perD5ciDus mouth s'condfttDns prgEadIfng among sc91oo, children and 10 prove the value ot prevention and ed7mcatiDR in mount hygiene for grsat numbers of ch11- dTgn in preferences to extensive re pair GHn1cs, Ef4aa mo effort to e17z1l1- .natB tlhs sDurwe OR inc trDuaoHe ], wwG1la, of cDuISa, EGwg been taeaI tr 51as1Bgs had inc tWFw tB pes of clin5cs anI ,1D hHwe pE1t TfH9 cR11Id8rgzn7s mouths 1r sound cDnGfHUm, butt funds Mere nD-
 
 excellent report s71GywVm is merely tf4 Easu11 Of FeturIt5Dn and prevention F'CT the EoIE7T TsuEse of securing 1f1iz AHta a GEnnp1stB rsGDrI3 chart has Eaen nnnfntadnad of the condition Cf REGy -cIhiIds mOa1UIh at each EucreS S1we treatment, and inc following fig urCB were 0TDtRIrsd by comparing the average number of cavities per child in the fifth grade of a given srR2ool
 
 same grade of the Earn@ school REE- sarnl yearB agm. The dernDnst1a1tpr wvas conducted in thirty schools and rtI1ts year twenty thousand 1nIdTviaDa children received this treatment and ed11EatiDn-
 DEn1aa Carries
 Following is the percentage of Te dupion of cavities in f91ss FSernnanen: teeth of ffle fifth graders in thesi schoolss
 The highest was Ra1nu11n school rIhftlh showed a redurt1fDm of 67-; pE cent
 The following five schools Eera 0ver o7 per cents Huntington Read Koasuth, Prospect, Grand and Shg adan
 Two Ec#oo1z, Mnp1@woOd ana Franklin, showed over a 50 per canf reduction
 Thrse schools, Su1n1nerf1sa6- Linn coin and Staples, were over 40 De cent.
 Washington, wbee1er md Baari Rock were over 30 per < Gsnt-
 Newfteld, Garfield. Hall. Jackson and Shelton were over 25 per cenlt-
 Bryant Elias Howe and Ma:dfso1 were over 20 per cent
 Those over IS per cent were Wal ltesasviIle, Jeffersons Longfe1ows Go 1uInbus and Webster-
 One school, Read was below l per cent. and two schoo1s, Whitue and McNnleys showed a, minus rec ord.
 The total average for all t3es schools amounts to 3S.9 per cent
 Although the principals and teach CTS have given splendid co-operatfo in many of the schools that have lo7 records, they had to contend with certain number of children who's