SCHOOL DENTAL TREATMENT
APPROVAL OF PROPOSED SCHEME. (Bv Teleeranh—Press Association.) 1 Napier, December 3. The Education Board, having heard Mr. Hunter, expressed its approval of rho proposed scheme of dental treatment for school children, and the liopo that the scheme may be introduced into Il'awke's Bay at the earliest opportunity. PROTEST FROM NURSES. By Telegraph—Free? " esoclatlon. Dunedln, December 3. Tho Otago ; branch of tho Trained purses' Association to-i».;nt passed the following resolution relative to the proposal of tlio Government to train women for two years as dental operators:— "That this branch of the Trained Nurses' Association protests against the Government's proposal to utilise women with only eighteen months to twq years' training to do dental operation on school children in New Zealand. The Trained Nurses' Association is of tho decided opinion that women employed bv fho Stato in such a service should either be fully' trained ns qualified dentists for four years, or should be employed for purely nurses' duties. The association is of opinion that two years' training would be utterly inadequate to justify women without previous experience undertaking operations."
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 60, 4 December 1920, Page 10
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181SCHOOL DENTAL TREATMENT Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 60, 4 December 1920, Page 10
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