THE DENTAL CLINIC.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17180, 10 February 1930, Page 14

THE DENTAL CLINIC.

(To the Editor of the Herald.) Sir,—Yoar article in Saturday night’s issue on the above-mentioned suuject was of more than passing interest t< many oj your readers who are interested in the welfare of young ehildrcn. If > certainly depressing to note that the efforts of the Dental Clinic committee have met with so poor a response ir its appeal for funds. It is true tha. the rant and file of the public havt many calls to meet, and in too man.' instances on somewhat slender purses. It is also a fa t there are many ion are not disposed to lontrilvite on tin ground that the total cost of the ad ministration in this connection should bo borne bv tl e Government. Those o us who take up this attitude and madamant in this demand must surely realise that the policy of a government cannot be changed in a year or perhaps many years; consequently a direct re fusnl to meet the position, on the con ditions offering, is to deny in the mean time, whi-h mav he n very long time the Dental Clinic benefits that do accrue to children of the lower standards in on mfblic Schools.; This attitude is to he deprecated. In other centres of t!m Dominion the offer of the Government is being taken lip with alacrity, and the result, at the moment, is that the' -1 ' are insufficient dental nurses at the dis nosal of the department concerned t' mopfc the ever incrasing drnand. This 1-eing so it rniift he allowed tliat if D" Dental Clinic committee fails to "enrw on” the local nurses will b“ certainly withdrawn and allocated to t hose place l that need them where the people are. readv and willing to assist—not onlv to assist administratively, hut fmanriall'’ nod also to annreeinte the good wor'<‘ ♦ ■ at. is he’"g done hv the Slate Dentil' Divismn of this eountrv, Tn fiehtiim for the health of the children insofar a' preventing the early decay of the tee h a disease that is becoming seriously ore valent, are are all on common ground Gecnuse we were ah children once I A ns thus make common cause of tin* s-d'iect. and with the aid of the Oetbnli npr'inn of the enmmnnitv. which s" n t , n'’ t gnvc little doubt, will hiin w ; th n* whole-heartedlv in raising funds to e™-* a building larva ennn"h to a crow moria^ three nuvs''*. wb’ch will pital'leO'e who’of the ehild-ed in all the schools w (• fPn fo-'rth standard being evnn'hied treated ns circumstances reenir". Co™ mending the foregoing for Dm fn-nm 1 ' 1 - consideration of your readers.—T. am etc., “DEMOCRAT.”