THE DENTAL SCHOOL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18234, 2 May 1921, Page 6

THE DENTAL SCHOOL.

TO THE EDITOH. gm—The Minister of Education is about to investigate the condition of the Medical School. There is, from the standpoint of public health and education, a grave scandal in this town. The University Council recently decided to dispense with the visiting staff of the Dental School, and in accepting their dictum these remarks were called for: “to ask practitioners to demonstrate operative dentistry with the present disgraceful accommodation and equipment is a scandal that must react on the well-being of the dominion. The old petrol tins into which young and old, healthy and unhealthy, are forced to spit, together with th:< painful overcrowding, has made the work of the visiting staff especially nauseating.” Obviously, as the Government has not put a dentist on the Board of Health, the expensive department of Mr Hunter’s is not one which the Government thinks spells physical efficiency. If the Minister of Health and the Director of Dental Education are prepared to provide the dominion with dentists qualified on the present scandalous conditions for teaching operative dentistry, then no wonder no dental represent afive is desired on the Board of Health. —I am, 1 etc., ' Fbakk Abmstsoko.