Dental Study in Toronto.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 7, 3 October 1907, Page 11

Dental Study in Toronto.

THE HATED ENGLISH. " Mr. Konnoth Morpeth, of Wellington, has returned to this city after .lending some seven- months at the Royal College of Dental Surgery, a nch of tho University of Toronto, ono of the finest educational institutions in North America. .Under tlio impression that ho might have, scme;llK interesting to say, an interview was secured by a Dominion reporter. Ho was not disappointed. Mr. Morpeth is full', of enthusiasm for the educational institutions of "Our Lady of the Snows," and in particular of the great Toronto University with which he.,was most intimately concerned. Ho. admitted that professionally the trip and the study had boon of immense ibonefit to him as there was 110 more up-to-date school of dentistry in the world than that of Toronto. There, wore advances in every direction, mechanical, surgical, and in the operating branch of the profession, which .had a much wider significance thaii .dental operations meant in Now Zcnijmd, particularly at Chicago, where-he studied under Mr. Brophy, the originator of the celebrated Brophy operation that entails making a cleft palate i (in infants) whole.

Thoro were some 220 students at tho Dental College at Toronto y.'hen Mr. Morpeth was there, "and," said ho, " I can toll you' tlioy 'do work. Tiioy commonce at 8.30>.nv and work on until 6 p.m., and. that in tho middle of winter when the snow lies on the ground for weeks , and the .lake-front is frozen hard'.' Jtn.the operating room there were l( between GO. and 70 chairs, which wer,e kept supplied with patients from the public, who could liavo their'toetii attcncle'd to for tho cost of the'material plus a small chargc for meeting'th'c; minor expenses of the Collego. indigent patients, were, of course,> .treated 1 .free. The favourite gaino ' of. ,tlio ■ dental students during winter is hookey on tho ico, played on an ico called "The Bay," between the lako front and an island* about two miles from the shorn! •. Hockey 011 skates was much fastor,: than our hockey, but was not so" scientific.

Mr. Morpeth returns to "New-Zea-land with a nasty tasto'iii' his mouth for Americans—not so much for tho Canadians as for those across the border, but the Canadians -had imbibed a ; good deal of what, .'to' a colonial, was nauseous.

"If you arc an Englishman the best thing you can do is "to hide your identity, oven at Toronto. Ibeiiove this has como about beci'iiSothc Englishman tint goes out there is not usually of the best typo. l It is different cvon with the Soot's,' for it is a good type that ,hasi'jnniigratcd to 1 Canada, and that has had an influonco." , • . "What about the colonial?" . .... "Oh, ho gets along, pretty ivell," said Mr. Morpeth." During his stay in Chicago lie had a look at the "Jungle," but, it had been cleaned up and ; ' mado decent since the publication " of 'Sinclair's book. Ho saw the mechanical killing apparatus at ivork, but 'could only stand a littlo of that. ■ What, inter:, eisted him most was tho can-making factories. The prcccss was a. marvel of mechanical ingenuity, and the speed at which thoy woro turned: out was bewildering. It was summer when lie was in Chicago, and during one day there were fifteen deaths reported duo to the effect or the heat. ..Mr Morpeth was glad he went to America,' but it was good to : bo back in New Zealand.'