RENTAL DISEASE m SCHOOLS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22435, 23 June 1938, Page 16

RENTAL DISEASE m SCHOOLS

WELLINGTON EXPERIMENT SMITH FAMILY’S CHANGE OP PLANS REGRETTED (FKE3S ASSOCIATION TEUtOSAIf.) WELLINGTON, June 22. The Wellington Education Board, jit its May meeting, granted permission to the Smith Family to use the facilities at the Mount Cook School for preparing special meals to be given to children as an experimental treatment to arrest and prevent dental caries. A letter from the Smith Family, read at to-day’s meeting of the board, stating that it was.now proposed to : hold an experiment at St. Orphanage, was criticised by several members, who considered that the board had been slighted, and a motion was passed informing the Smith Family that the change ot attitude was regretted and that it was considered that the test would be more effective if applied to children at a public school. The proposal had attracted the attention of the Dental Research Committee, a number of professional men and school medical officers, the letter stated. In order to co-ordinate the Smith Family’s work with that of the Dental Research Committee; a. meeting was called, at which the Director of School Dental Hygiene and school medical officers were present. The proposal was fully discussed, and it was decided that in view of the wider interest taken and the additional professional assistance offered,, it would produce better results if a preliminary demonstration were carried out at St. Joseph’s Orphanage, the authorities of which had agreed to co-operate. The hope was expressed that when the demonstration was finished at the orphanage it would be possible to carry it further in the schools. Arrangements for that, however, would be undertaken by school medical officers.

Morrison of Eisten, a well-known Swiss guide, who i#as making ah excursion with 11 skiers on the Breithorn, near the Matterhorn, was killed when a snow bridge over which he was passing collapsed and he was thrown down a crevasse. William Ryan, aged 10, who had been left in charge of Tiis two younger brothers, Thomas, aged six, and Pat, aged three, saved them when fire broke out in a living-room in their flat in Borough High street, Southwark, by hurrying them down the smoke-filled staircase to the street