“WRITING ON THE WALL.”
THE STATE OF THE NATION’S TEETH. A passage in the annual report of the Director of the Division of School of Hygiene refers to the medical examination of candidates for the teaching profession. It concludes as follows: “If the same habits of living which have given rise in the case of thesq teachers to fairly extensive decay of nearly 40 per cent of their teeth are to continue in the younger generations, there is no reasonable hope of over being able to cope with the dental problem in this country. We are not keeping pace with it at present, and there is ample evidence that the prevalence of dental disease is increasing. Is it likely that this extensive disease of the teeth and the conditions causing it have not a serious influence upon the general health, and especially upon the future health, of the people? Can there be any more definite ‘writing on the wall’ warning us to look to our diet and general habits of life?”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 237, 19 September 1922, Page 7
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