THE CARE OF TEETH
(Per Press Association.}
AUCKLAND, September 1. . 'Dr. Purdy, District Health Officer, in a lecture last night, urged the teaching °f hygiene in schools as a compulsory subject, together with the 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 the chief centres dental dispensaries should be established, to which all children with bad teeth should be sent. All volunteers should be allowed free to consult a dentist, who would be paid a regulation fee, according to th-e work done. The standard of the people would be raised:, by the subsidising of State 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. (Applause.)
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 2 September 1908, Page 5
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