The School Dental Clinic

In March, 1928 the first Dental Nurse was appointed to the Technical School in Cloton Road. She was given a room in the school by the Education Department, who also paid her wages. Although the School Committee supplied the facilities, the running expenses had to be paid by the parents by donations. All restorative work was done by ‘pedal drill’. (In 1925 the National statistics revealed that there were 73 extractions for every 100 fillings.)

In February 1949, the new Dental clinic was opened at the present school site. There were three electric ‘B’ type units. By 1950 there were five Nurses working in a Clinic originally built for three, and they were five years in arrears.

In 1978 the present three nurse Clinic was opened on its present site to the North of the old Clinic, which became the Speech Clinic.