SCHOOL CHILDREN

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 118, 18 May 1920, Page 4

SCHOOL CHILDREN

AHU MEDICAL INSPECTION. A FOHWARD MOVEMENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) .WELLINGTON, Tuesday. With regard to the medical inspection of school children the Minister of Education, the Hon. C. I. Parr, informed a deputation to-day that he feared the State was not doing enough yet in medical and dental inspection and treatment. At the present time there were 12 doctors and some 22 school nurses and 14 physical instructors. Cabinet had lately agreed, at his request, to appoint two more doctors, and he believed they were doing excellent work. He. would be able to make a statement shortly with rcganl to dental treatment. A chief drnt.jl ofiicer would be appointed very soon to take charge of the dental department, which would give treatment as well as make inspections. The controller of the department v. ould have a staff of thirteen or fourteen dentists, to give attention to school children. Some motor ambulances had -been secured from tSie Defence Department, and these would bo ■fitted up a? dental clinics, and in these dentists would go round to back country districts, where often the teeth of children were not cared for at all. In the citic- treatment would be given at various places: it might be in echools, or in connection with the hospital*.