SCHOOL DENTAL TREATMENT
NO DESIRE TO ASSURANCE GIVEN DENTISTS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The desire of the Government that the work of school dental clinics should not interfere with the legitimate work of the dental profession was emphasised by the Minister of Health, the Hon. A. J. Stallworthy, when addressing the Dental Conference. The school system was not designed to encroach upon the peculiar preserves of the profession, the Minister said. Ninety-five per cent of school children up to Standard IV were without very essential dental service, and the natural conclusion was that they were unable to get it. As the profession had no organisation for the treatment of children he thought they had done right by saying to the Government that it was the Government's responsibility. It was the earnest desire of the Government to co-operate with the profession, not to compete with it. Dr. Warren, the president, gave the Minister an assurance that he possessed their confidence.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 112, 14 May 1929, Page 9
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