DENTISTS IN GOLD BRAID
Tlie rise of dental officers in the British Navy \t> a remark able feature of tho lasi 10 years. For most of tho war, tho dental surgeons employed to attend the sailors were civilian practitioners, attached to the various barracks, hospitals and training ships. Then a separate branch was created, and now the 48 dental officers holding permanent commissions oro to bo increased to 64. By a new order, tho rank of surgeoncaptain (D.) is approved for this branch. How tho old-timo sailors, remarks an English writer, would have stared in amazement at the spectacle of a fourringed officer in full uniform coming aboard ship to extract teeth!
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12538, 30 August 1926, Page 2
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