SUPPLY OF DENTISTS

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 15, 17 January 1918, Page 8

SUPPLY OF DENTISTS

A PATRIOTIC RESOLUTION.

As in the case of the medical profession, the shortage of dentists throughout the country, owing -to so many being sent away with the Expeditionary Force, and serving in the Dental Corps in the New Zealand training camps; is. beginning to be seriously felt.. It is reported that in some districts the position is more acute than in others, and with still more dentists being called up under the Military Service Act, the question has arisen as to how the public need is to be supplied. The position on 30fch September last was that there were 134 dentists serving in the New Zealand Dental Corps abroad and in the training camps; and only 418 were left practising Jh civil life in New Zealand, as compared with 554 at the outbreak of the war. The problem was considered at,a recent meeting of the New Zealand Dental Association in Wellington, when the following resolution was passed:— • ■ '

"That the merr'bers of this association place- their services unreservedly in the hands of the Government .and the Minister of Defence, to be used to the best advantage." ,;

Members expressed their complete willingness to do whatever service is required of them, whether combatant or otherwise, and, if desired, to arrange for the supply of dentists in districts which had been deprived of the services of same.