HAURAKI DENTAL CLINIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 282, 18 February 1928, Page 12

HAURAKI DENTAL CLINIC

NO FUNDS AVAILABLE Matters in connection with the Hauraki Plains school dental clinic were discussed by the Ngatea District High School Committee on Monday evening, following the receipt of a letter from the dental nurse, Miss L. C. Ellis, ex-

pressing .thanks for the provision of linoleum and asking that long overdue repairs to th,p building be undertaken and that much needed furniture and fittings be provided. The letter pointed out that the work was being carried out under great difficulties and that efforts to make and maintain a standardised clinic would be greatly appreciated. “I am quite sure,” stated the nurse, ‘‘that the value of the work of the service entitles, at least, a reasonably convenient and hygienic surgery in which to carry out the treatment of the children of the Hauraki Plains.” In the discussion it was pointed out that the clinic builidng was certainly in a bad state, but the matter was not really the concern of the Ngatea School Committee, but of the Hauraki Plains Dental Clinic Committee, a body which never functioned. There was a complete lack of co-operation by the various parts of the district served by the clinic, as there had never been any proper organisation. This fault appeared to be largely the department’s, but the result was that the whole burden fell on the Ngatea School Com-

mittee. It had raised the funds locally to build the clinic and had since raised funds to maintain it, as no assistance whatever had been obtained from other centres. The continual expense for maintenance had become a burden and the committee, being reluctant to again appeal to the people of Ngatea, had possibly been using school funds. An examination of the receipts was considered necessary before further expenditure could be authorised. At the present time the dental nuilc desired to. visit the outlying schools to examine the children for the purpose of advising what treatment if any, was necessary. The cost of this r a 7, el 2 e Was ’ accor ding to the rules of the department, to be borne by the school district visited, but in view of the inactivity of the Haurakl Plains School Dental Clinic Committee, it appeared that nothing would be done. P