HEALTH WORK

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12283, 31 October 1925, Page 5

HEALTH WORK

EXHIBIT FOR DUNEDIN OFFICER NOW ON THE WAY SOME STRIKING MODELS The Dunedin exhibit of Lhe Public Health Department is now being prepared and an officer of the department is on his way to Dunedin to superintend its construction. Sometime in December the exhibit will be much enlarged by the arrival of the display which the British Ministry of Health held at Wembley. This is calculated at some 40 tons. SCHOOL HYGIENE One section of tne first exhibit will be devoted to school hygiene. Casts and models displayed will show the deformity due to wrong positions and malnutrition. Examples of suitable clothing for school children will be shown, and facts >n relation to goitre given. A relief map will reveal the goitre areas of New Zealand, and on this Lower Hutt will appear. The dental exhibit will show the work of the Government schools and dental clinics, which have done and are doing extensive work throughout New Zealand. Plaster casts of the mouth will be shown exhibiting the good results of a rational diet and the bad results of an irrational diev. Copies of the literature used in the propaganda woik of the dental division will be available. Visitors to Wellington interested in this work are cordially invited no inspect the department’s trailing clinic for nurses at Whitmore street. The maternal welfare division will have a qualified officer in attendance at the exhibition, and this officer will give advice on the lines at present followed in the ante-natal clinics now being established throughout the Dominion.