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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14656, 9 March 1918, Page 2

F;. Longworth. physical instructor for the primary schools in Car.terbnry. states that during his annual tour' of South Canterbury he noticed a vast improvement in pupils who had undergone a special course of drill during the year to remedy physical defects, lie could safely say that 80 t>pv cent•' of these children who--had been suffering from round shoulders, etc., had developed wonderfully, and wei'o now sin-art m appearance. . The v.tlnal-.10 -results through physical culture wpre'niulified to a certain extent by aqrVctivo teeth. Many parents were ouif" indifi:-?re.ut- to the state of their c-hUriren's tf.;t!], while, on tiie ether

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'"ri'.n(!. }i-!any r.arer.ts could not afford to pay for the necessary dental treatment. He rrn^idenjd that the time would come when this problem wnuli have to bo faced and a system adopted to provide f'-oo dontal tveatr.ient for the teeth of sill tnnnl? in the' State schools. He con-sidej-ed also thai: many of the parents v<"-«. t» b'smo fof the «t->tf> of tlieir diUdren's teeth. They sttilfed the sljilH--- vth vw^f, and i;kemts. '.the pulp irom the latter lodged between the teech, and if the brush was not liber-aiiy-anphed decay soon set in