DENTISTS BUSY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 September 1939, Page 4

DENTISTS BUSY

PREFERENCE TO RECRUITS. CHARTS NEEDED IN EVERY CASE. Masterton dentists in common with members of the profession in other parts of New Zealand, are working at high pressure at present, attending to the teeth of recruits who have enlisted for service in the special military force. Every recruit has to be dentally examined before the medical examination takes place, and in each case a chart is supplied giving necessary particulars of the condition of the recruit’s teeth. Recruits are receiving preference over ordinary patients, and on that account there is a slight congestion; though everything possible is being done to meet the position. Dentists are certainly putting in a full day’s work at the present time. Most of the men who have been turned down for service are those having defective teeth, but in other cases the men are being accepted after having received the requisite dental treatment. FURTHER ENROLEMENTS. TOTAL TOUCHES TWO HUNDRED. Further enrolments in Masterton in the special military force bring the total to 199. Additional.recruits are: lan A. Moffitt (Martinborough), Athol R. Brannigan (Eketahuna), Herbert A. Readman (Featherston), Eric H. Henderson (Te Whiti) Gordon S. Cooper (Gladstone), Leslie H. How (Aohanga).