DENTIST VISITS A SCHOOL.
WHAT HE.FOUND.' ' (By Telegraph—Special Correspondent.) Feilding, July 15. A Feilding dentist examined the Lyttcn Street school children recently. In his report to the committee ho writes:—"l examined in all 201 pupils. Of these there were 103 girls and 98 boys. I found in tlio girls 557 decayed tooth, and, in the boys,' 520. There, wero only five cases in whjch tho tiKith were in a perfectly sound condi-.. tion. Of,tho 201 children thero wero only 35 who had never had toothache —15 girls and 20 boys. I also found that there were 25 girls and 22 boys whose gums were in a very inflammatory aad septic condition. Only 25 out of 103 girls, and 17 out of 98 boys, admitted "tho uso of tho tooth-brush."
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 869, 16 July 1910, Page 10
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129DENTIST VISITS A SCHOOL. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 869, 16 July 1910, Page 10
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