DENTAL CLINIC

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17126, 5 December 1929, Page 4

DENTAL CLINIC

APEFAL TO PARENTS FUNDS URGENTLY WANTED The dental clinic committee has issued the following appeal to parents:— “The Health Department has advised the town school committees that unless they are prepared to assume control of the local dental clinic and carry on, the clinic will be closed as from December 31 next. A dental clinic committee has therefore been formed and this committee, in appealing for funds to carry on this important work, desires to .place the position before you. At the present time two nurses are fully employed, and in the course of the year inspect and treat 1500 children. A third*nurse is urgently required to further extend the work. Children are first treated in the primer classes and the work is carried on to the fourth standard. “The Health Department suggests that, a clinic on approved lines be erected in a central position, preferably on the grounds of the main school, at a cost of approximately ,£360. The department would find £240 of this amount ; also all salaries and equipment. The general expenses of the clinic, which the committee will 'be responsible for, would amount, with the present staff, to approximately £4O; with a third nurse to about £6o’a year. ■ “In appealing for funds** the committee is confident that parents will recognise the valuable work that is being accomplished amongst the . efiildren—dental wqrk in, many, cases, that would never be done but for fpie present system —and with the committee proposes; ,tp. (jatiy, qh . the good, work. and extenji t'l^blßeiieftwk to schools that have not' yet''V'rbfceiVed ‘ treatment. Donations may be sent in to the headmasters of Gisborne, Kaiti, Awapuni, and To Hapara schools, or direct to the Herald office, where a list will be kept. “Tn conclusion, may we stress the fact that to retain the clinic in Gisborne we must have funds immediately. It would be a standing disgrace to the community if the clinic was taken from us. The sum of £SOO should pay our share in the building, and give up sufficient capital to carry on ifor five or six years.”