TRAVELLING CLINIC.
NOVEL WANGANUI UNIT.
SCHOOL DENTAL SERVICE
(Special to the “ Guardian.”) WANGANUI, May 26
A contract has been let to a Wellington. firm for the constiuction of a mobile dental clinic for the Wanganui Dental Clinic Committee. The clinic, which takes tlio form of a trailer, equipped as carefully as any dental surgeon’s rooms, will he the first of its kind in the world. It will operate over the area bounded by Maxwell, 16 miles north of Wanganui and Turalana, 14 miles south, serving some 19 country schools, with a nominal roll of 709 children. , The trailer clinic is to be a compact unit with an over-all length of 12ft. Sin. a width of 7ft. 10in. over the frame, and a height from wheelbase to roof of 9ft. lOin. The interior is to be a model in economy of space. Its furnishings will include a writing desk, an instrument shelf, a sterilising bench, and various cupboards and shelves. A water system will be installed, this calling for a tank in the roof filled by means of a small motor pump and acting as a gravity supplv.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 194, 30 May 1934, Page 3
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