TO SAVE TEETH
SCHOOL DIET EXPERIMENT. SANCTIONED IN WELLINGTON. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON. May 18. Although a proposal to carry out a dietary experiment, for the purpose of checking dental caries, was opposed by two members of the Wellington Education Board to-day, permission was give nto "the Smith Family” to conduct an experiment at the Mount Cook School, by a majority of the members of the Board.
The experiment is to be conducted over a period of six months, and it will consist of providing a meal to thirty children, once a day on school days. The meals to be provided will be based on a system evolved by an American dental surgeon to supply essential minerals to check the decay tn teeth.
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Grey River Argus, 19 May 1938, Page 5
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