DENTAL CLINICS.
CONFLICTING STATEMENTS. THE DEPARTMENT’S POLICY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 2. Conflicting statements regarding the policy in the treatment of children at State dental clinics has been received by the Auckland Education Board. The Minister of Health said the treatment of private school children had not been authorised by the Health Department.
The chairman of the Matamata Clinic Committee quoted from a booklet on the policy of the dental service that State school children had a prior claim. The dental nurse at Matamata said she had been instructed that all schools were eligible. The division of dental hygiene wrote that the primary departments of the Convent schools were now eligible.
The Board decided to forward all the letters on to the Minister of Education.
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Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17928, 2 July 1930, Page 5
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