"DENTALLY FIT."
CARE OF SOLDIERS' TEETH. ■ Dental services in connection with the Expeditionary Forces at the front and in training camps have been remarkably developed during the past few months, and tue conditions boih at heme and abroad are very satisfactory. In a letter to the Minister •of Defence, General Sir Alexander Godley states that the dental arrangements at the front have been'reorganised under. Colonel' Parkes and Mr. Finn, staff officer. Good work has been done, anrl the arrangements are very thorough. As regards the work in New Zealand, the Minister states that a tremendous improvement lias been made, and is still going on, the aim being to develop the service in the Dominion so completely that our men will practically leave for the front as dentally sound as it is possible to make them. The staffs have been increased, and. the importance of dental work is now . more fully' realised than ever before.. The New Zealand Dental Association is materially assisting the Department throughout the Dominion as regards the dental examination of recrnits and their subsequent treatment. The organisation, under Colonel Hunter, Director of Dental Services, is very complete.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2769, 12 May 1916, Page 6
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190"DENTALLY FIT." Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2769, 12 May 1916, Page 6
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