DENTAL WORK IN CAMPS.
LARGE SAVING EFFECTED. , [BY TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION;] "WELLINGTON. Tuesday. LrEUTENANT-CbLOKEi, T. A. Hunter, director of dental services, was examined before the Defence Expenditure Commission to-day. He stated that dental members of medical boards had been done away with on his recommendation, the idea being that, the whole of the dental work could be done in camp. He could not speak too highly of the patriotism of the New Zealand Dental Corps. Many of them- had made very great sacrifices, and the success of the whole thing was due to their united efforts. Practically the whole Dental Association volunteered for dental service. The saving effected during the past six months through doing dental work inside the camps was: Featherston £6294; Trentham, £5429. No fewer than 8000 operations were involved in the treatment, including 1275 members of the thirty-ninth reinforcements.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16850, 15 May 1918, Page 6
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