DENTAL CLINICS
FOR FREE TREATMENT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. By Telegraph-Press Association. New Plymouth, May 31. The Hon. G. W. Russell, speaking today at a conference with the Taranaki Hospital Board, referred to the movement to establish clinics for free dental treatment of school children. The Minister said he know no distinction between pupils of State and private schools. Tho work of the clinics should ho confined to essential treatment, not the undertaking of high-class dentistry. If dentists wore not procurable to manago- tho clinics, the Government should arrange to train students, who should be given bursaries, and at the end of (he course required go into the Public Service for a year or two, the same as in the scheme in connection with medical students, who then become officers of ihe Public Health Department. He hopoo eventually to provide a State medical service.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 217, 1 June 1918, Page 8
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143DENTAL CLINICS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 217, 1 June 1918, Page 8
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