“Never frighten a child by threatening it with the doctor,” said Colonel F. W. W. Dawson, assistant medical officer of health, in an address at the animal meeting of the Christchurch branch of the Plunkct Society. “To make the' doctor appear to be something to he afraid of may at some time or other endanger the child’s life,' because when a doctor’s aid is urgently needed the child may be so terrified of him that he cannot make ; a proper examination. One of the advantages .of the school medical service is that the children are becoming so used to the doctors that they go to them with a. smile. Many of them are not even afraid of the dentistV chair.”' .
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12598, 6 July 1935, Page 9
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