CARE OF CHILDREN'S TEETH
WELLINGTON, September 10.
A deputation from the New Zealand Dental Association waited on the Hone. G. W. Russell and J. A. Hanan this afternoon to urge that the Government should immediately inaugurate a dental department for the purpose of establishing a thoroughly comprehensive system of school State dentistry. Under the schemo proposed the cost to the State would involve a total annual expend'turo of £75,400. Replying, the Ministers stated that the scheme was too largo to undertako at the present time. Mr Russell stated that £3CCO had been placed on the Estimates last year for dental clinics attached to the publio hospitals, and the same amount would be available this year. He proposed a grant of pound for pound subsidy to such clinics, which would mean an amount of £2500 a year. Under the existing scheme the teeth of 25,000 children would be treated, annually.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3313, 12 September 1917, Page 53
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