HYGIENE IN SCHOOLS.
BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, September 1. Dr. Purdy, District Health Officer, in a lecture last night, urged the teaching of hygiene in schools as a compulsory subject together vyith systematic medical inspection' of schools. "Let them have competent dentists to attend to the teeth of the children in our State schools, at least in each of the chief centres dental dispensaries should be established to which all children with carious teeth should be sent," said the doctor. "All volunteers should be allowed free to consult a dentist who would be paid a regulation fee according to the work done. Next to a sanatorium for consumptives and a children's hospital, I could not advise anyone desirous of leaving money to a good cause to do better than to found and endow a dental dispensary."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9181, 2 September 1908, Page 5
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137HYGIENE IN SCHOOLS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9181, 2 September 1908, Page 5
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