NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

New Zealand is not the only place that is wag.ng war against defective teeth. It has already made an onslaught on same of the schools with view of improving

Teeth and bad Health

the teeth of the present generation.

Australia too lias done likewise, but it remains for Germany to go a step further We read that the administration of State Insur ance of German workmen for sickness and old ago is devoting increased attention to dentistry. It has discovered that defective teeth often have a very deleterious influence on general health, and, partly in its own interest it has had the teeth of large numbers of workmen properly attended to. The annual expense incurred in the Berlin district alouo for dental treatment having risen to £5,000, the committee of the Berlin sic.ion of the S ate Insurance contemplates the establishment of a dental hospital of its own. This would not only effect a great saving, but would also enable the committie to exert more carefuljcontrol the execution of dental work, and to watch the results with more accuracy. Germany is thus tho first country to recognise tho national importance of its workers having serviceable teeth. The example of Berlin will undoubtedly be followed in other great centres throughout the Empire.