DENTAL TREATMENT IN BACKBLOCKS
CARE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN (THE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. A REQUEST for a reasonable effort to provide dental clinics for backblocks’ children was made in the House of Representatives to-day by Mr. H. M. Campbell, Hawke’s Bay, who addressed a question to the Minister of Health, the Hon. J. A. Young. This question was continually before the Health Department, said the Minister, and every reasonable effort was being made, consistent with the service available. The dental clinics had already been extended to country schools, and wherever practicable, arrangements were made for children attending backblock schools, with the assistance of school authorities and parents, to receive treatment. Further, it had been arranged that children to whom no school was available on account of their isolation, and who received tuition from the correspondence branch of the Education Department, should also be eligible for treatment at the nearest clinic. Up to date the department was able to give regular and systematic attention to about 35,000 children. Further extention. however, must of necessity be gradual.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 102, 21 July 1927, Page 11
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