“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 annual meeting of the Christchurch branch of the Plunket Society. “To make the doctor appear to be something to be frightened 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,” ho said. “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 dentist’s chair.’i
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 16 August 1935, Page 8
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