SCHOOL DENTAL CLINICS
NINETY NOW OPERATING LEVIN’S PIONEERING Press Association LEVIN. Today. The State dental clinic in Levin was yesterday officially opened by the Minister of Health, the Hon. A. J. Stallworthy, who in the course of his address said there were 90 clinics operating. with 55 sub-bases 670 schools and 53.500 children being under treatment. Seventeen new clinics had been established this year. The work accomplished last year included 146,354 fillings. 76,555 extractions, and 99,701 other operations. Alention was made by other speakers of the fact that Levin pioneered the way in the Dominion by establishing a school dental system in 1919, two years before the State clinics were operating. This was the scheme devised by Air. D. S. Alackenzie, a local dentist, under which he and other practitioners attended to children for a nominal fee of £1 per annum. This service is still operating in the district. _
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 742, 15 August 1929, Page 7
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149SCHOOL DENTAL CLINICS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 742, 15 August 1929, Page 7
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