DENTAL HYGIENE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5314, 17 August 1928, Page 3

DENTAL HYGIENE.

WORK OF SCHOOL CLINICS. ANNUAL REPORT BY DIRECTOR. Included in the the annual report brought down, by the Department of Health this year is one submitted by the Director of the Division ot Dental Hygiene (Dr. T. A. Hunter), which states:— , “The allocation of the staff of the division is as follows :— Wellington : Mr J. L. Saunders. 8.D.5., deputydirector, Division of Dental Hygiene ; .Mr R. D. Elliott, inspecting dental officer; Mr J. .Bibby, clinical de'.mons|trato<r,; Mr A- Brice, 8.D.5., clinical demonstrator; Miss E. M. Haines, senior dentaj nurse. “In t'the field', ten dental officers and sixty-'one dental nurses, stationed as follows Dental officers : One: at North Auckland, ope at E'dendale, one at Nelson, one a,t Mofueka, one. at Christchurch, one at Timaru, one at Hokitika,, one at Oamaru, one at Dun- - edin, one at Rarotonga. Dental nurses: Two at Auckland, qne at Ponsonby, one at Avondale, two a,t *Grey Lypn, cjie at Dargaville, one at Whangarei, one at Papakura, one at Paeroa, one at Tauranga, one at Huntly, two at Hamilton, one at Cambridge, one at.Te Awamutu, one at. Te Kuiti, one. at Ohaku.ne, one at Wanganui, two, at Palmerston North, one at Dannevirke, two at New Plymouth, eaie "at El th am, one at Feilding, t.wo at Napier, one at Gisborne, one a,t Waipukurau, one at Hastings, one at Hawe'ra, one at Pahiatua, .two at M'asterton, one ,a,t Lower Hutt, one at Nelson, two at Blenheim, o ( ne at Christchurch, one at Beckenham, ope at Christchurch East, one at Woolstcn, one at St Albans, two at- Westport, one at Greymouth, one at Temuka, one at. Timaru, one at Ashburton, one at Oamaru, one at one at Dunedin Central, qne at Dunedin South, two at Invercargill, one at Balclutha, one a ; t Gore, one at Tapanui, one at' .Clyde;' one at Atautau. '“There were at March 31, 1928, .67 probationer dental nurses undergoing training at the department’s training school in Wellington. Of these, 32 are in the second yean of .their, training, and 35 .are new appointees. who have only recently taken up duty. Twenty-five dental nurses who completed their tr,ajning during March 'have all been allo,ca,ted to school dental clinics in various parts of the Dominion. c NEW CLINICS. “Since March 31, 19>27, new clinics have been established at the following places: Grey Lynn, Pa.eroa, Taura,nga, Cambridge, Te Kuiti, Eltham, Fielding, St. Albans, Ashburtp.it, Dunedin South, Otautau. OPERATIONS DURING 1927. “The following is a summary of the operations performed from January 1 to December 31, 1927, by dental officers. dental nurses, and probationers in training: Fillings, 116,916 ; extractions. 66,523 ; minor operations, 76,656 ; total operations, 260,095. Of the above treatment the dental nurres in the field, now numbering 61, have performed the following : Fillings, 79,517 ; extractions, 48,230’; minor ■operations, 51,802 ; total . operations, 179,549. The- tctal treatment performed by dental nurses since first ■ nurses qualified in May, 1923, is l as follows : Fillings, 164,332; extractions. 106,309 ; minor operations, 119,397 ; totafl operations, 390,038.”