SCHOOL DENTAL SERVICES
COMMITTEES’ VIEWS ON IMPROVEMENT
MEASURES SUGGESTED TO INCREASE STAFF
(New Zealand Press Association) PALMERSTON NORTH, March 10. School dental services were discussed today at the annual conference of the New Zealand School Committees’ Federation. The conference agreed to draw the ’attention of the Minister of Education (Mr R. M. Algie) to "the inadequacy of the facilities available under the social security scheme for the provision of dental treatment for primary school children.” . . x It was decided to ask the Minister (a) to intensify the campaign for the recruitment of dental nurses and establish a dental nurses’ school in the South Island; (b) to discontinue sending dental nurses overseas until New Zealand's own needs were satisfied; and (c) to ensure tha’t proper alternative facilities were provided while the present shortage of nurses continued. The conference also recommended that the Education Department should; waive the requirement that a dental nurse must have her own teeth, and not artificial dentures. The Minister will be asked to declare his ' policy on mobile dental clinics for serving country schools, and the federation will protest against “any further reduction in the work, of the school dental service.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26986, 11 March 1953, Page 8
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