DENTISTRY FOR OUT-PATIENTS.
'-THE POSITION AT WELLINGTON . HOSPITAL; - :. 'At the Hospital Board meeting yestel'Bayj'.when it had been resolved that rwben the honorary' dental surgeon has to provide special mechanical appliances tor certain patients the board shall pay for tho same and charge to the pa-tients,"-Mr. A. H. Hindmarsh asked for a statement concerning the working of. the Dental Department at. the Hospital. What were its functions? ■ • The, reply, by .the chairman (Mr. J. G. \W:Aitkeh), and Mr. R. C. Kirk (chairman .of the Hospital Committee), was -to the effect that the Dental Department was under control of Mr. Didsbury, tho honorary dental surgeon. It was'^not,- strictly, speaking, a consulting department, as it simply treated patients "who were sent in by the outpatients department of the Hospital. It existed to meet . the necessity' of patients who could not afford- private treatment, and occasionally, as. had the : 'Charitable Aid Board in the past, suppliedl artificial teeth. : It wa3,-considered Mr.'Kirk, a'; department which was de-serving-of. further extension.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1034, 25 January 1911, Page 7
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