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CHILDREN'S TEETH

DENTAL ASSOCIATION URGES ACTION. Representatives of the New Zealand Dental Association waited upon, the Minister of Education (Hon. J. A. Hanan) and the Minister of Public Health (Hon. G.>, W. Eusscll) yesterday to urge tho Uovernment to proceed with the establishment of a comprehensive scheme for tho inspection and treatment of children's teeth. ■ They emphasised the need; for provision 'of this kind. Tho inspections already made had shown that a vcrj large proportion of tho children attend- , ing the New Zealand schools at tho present time had faulty teeth. The creation of an effective system, with dental clinics, would involve an annual expenditure ot about ■ \ The Minister of Public Health said that,tho scheme was too large to. be undertaken whilo the war was in progress. The Government had placed on the Estimates last year a sum of £3000 for dental clinics attached to the publio hospitals, and would repeat the vote this year. He proposed to grant a pound for pound subsidy-to clinics established by the hospital boards and believed that the expenditure would be sufficient to provide'reatment for 25,000 children annually. The Minister of Education assured the deputation that he was heartily in sympath/ with the agitation for the treatment of children's teeth. The question was one of finance, and it was impossible to undertake any very extensive Tew expenditure Wore the end of the war. :

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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3187, 11 September 1917, Page 4

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CHILDREN'S TEETH Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3187, 11 September 1917, Page 4

CHILDREN'S TEETH Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3187, 11 September 1917, Page 4

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