BACKBLOCKS CLINICS
TRAVEL SCHEME SOLVES PROBLEM EFFICIENT DENTISTRY Travelling dental clinics are believed £o provide a solution to the problem of serving back country districts. So satisfactory were results announced from the North Auckland system to the Education Board this morning that the report is to be. sent through the Department of Education to the Minister of Health. Extension of the system will be advocated. The report was definite in stating that a travelling clinic overcame difficulties. He said it was hard to find bad teeth among the children served. Mr. A. Burns, chairman of the board, while expressing satisfaction at the report and the apparent solution of the problem, could not understand why the system had not been extended. The Director of Dental Hygiene notified the board that it had been found necessary to reorganise work in North Auckland. It was proposed to establish a sub-base clinic at Huapai.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 747, 21 August 1929, Page 11
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150BACKBLOCKS CLINICS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 747, 21 August 1929, Page 11
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