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DENTAL CLINIC.
The Dental Clinic established in September, 1925,
and conducted by Miss J. H. M. Sutherland, L.D.S.
(R.C.S.), has continued with two sessions per month
ever since. The main purpose of the clinic is educational
and the prevention of dental disease. It is, therefore, a
natural and integral part of the work of the Welfare
Centre in raising the standard of maternal and child
health.
Miss Sutherland reports on the year's work as
follows:—

Sixty-three patients were recommended by the doctors at
the Centre and elsewhere and 18 by the Health Visitors in the
district.

Twenty-one expectant mothers attended the Clinic as
patients.
Attendances at the Clinic have improved and become more
steady though the irregularity of sessions, especially when
there are five Thursdays in a month, is certainly a drawback in
making re-appointments. There has been an increased attendance
of very young children under two years, which is a hopeful
sign, and much good may be done by a periodic inspection at
regular intervals, when slight treatment may be carried out.
A great deal has yet to be done in educating the parents to
understand the immense importance of healthy milk teeth on