GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 213, 2 September 1908, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

THE PI'BLIC HEALTH. Auckland; Last -Night. Dr. l'nrdy, District Health OHker, iii a lecture lust nig'ht, urged the toaenrag of hygiene in scnools us a compulsory subject, together with systematic medical inspection of schools, "Let them have competent dentists to attend to the teeth of the children in our State schools, at least in each of tire chief centres," lie said. Dsiital dispensuries should be established to which all children with carious teeth should be sent. All volunteers"should be allowed to consult a dentist who would be paid a regulation fee, according to the work dune. The standard of the people .would be raised by the subsidising of Stale dentists, next to a sanatorium for consumptives and a children's hospital. He could not advise Anyone desirous of leaving money to a good cause to do better than to found and endow a dental dispensary.

I A DISTRACfED GIRL. Auckland, Last Night A young girl whose parents reside nt Waihi was in town during fleet week and took sier young brother out to see tiic sights. In the crowd she lost sight of him and subsequently heard that lie had beeii injured and taken to tfou 'hospital. The shock and sense of her failure to carry out the trust of her young relative preyed so on hvr mind | that when she got 'home she swallowed some match heads, and had as a result to be taken herself tu fire hospital.' AVhcn (he ease was called in Court, it was explained that she had but recently recovered from a severe attack of enteric fever, and as she appeared to have regained her menial balance, the girl was allowed to return to the care 'of her relatives.

■EMPLOYERS' FEDERATION. Wellington, Last Night. The Advisory Hoard of the New >-••»- kind Employers' Federation has fixed Wednesday, October 7th, as the date for the annual meeting of the Jimiulioii. It is expected the gathering will bv one of tli« hugest and most im]iortimt yet lield in connection with Hi" federation.

NEW FEVER HOSPITAL. Wellington, Tucsda . The Wellington Hospital Trustees' decided to-day to approve the erection of u new fever hospital at the rear of Mount View Mental Hospital, as recommended by the medical stair and the Health Department.

BEQUEST TO CONSUMPTIVES' SANATORIUM.

Wellington, Tuesday. The late Mrs. ,7olm Brown, wiww husband (also dead) was for some years .1 member of Parliament, has left about '£looo worth of her estate to the Otaki Hospital for Consumptives.

SLACKNESS OF TIIU TIMIM! 1 TRADE. Carterton. Tuesday. The Wnirnrana Daily News states (hat owing to slackness" of orders, the local sawmillers contemplate closing d»wn. This would affect fortv or tifly families of worker-. The sawmillem declare that tbev have a large stock of timber for which there is no sale. Workers are dcmitalinaising the lrieniber for the district to ask the GV.vcrnment to use native timber in preference to imported timber.

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