Free dental clinics in North Carolina : traveling dental service for rural school children during the summer of 1918 . eady been carried toAsheville for the successful removalof tonsils and adenoids, and provisionmade for the operation at Marshalland White Rock at the new Presby-terian Hospital at the latter place, forall the remaining children who needthis service. 30 FREE DENTAL CLINICS FRANKLIN COUNTY The health officer of FranklinCounty, Dr. J. E. Malone, through thegenerosity of the local dentists, ar-ranged for the treatment of a largeclass of dental work. In this case thedentists simply
Free dental clinics in North Carolina : traveling dental service for rural school children during the summer of 1918 . eady been carried toAsheville for the successful removalof tonsils and adenoids, and provisionmade for the operation at Marshalland White Rock at the new Presby-terian Hospital at the latter place, forall the remaining children who needthis service. 30 FREE DENTAL CLINICS FRANKLIN COUNTY The health officer of FranklinCounty, Dr. J. E. Malone, through thegenerosity of the local dentists, ar-ranged for the treatment of a largeclass of dental work. In this case thedentists simply made their work freeto all school children, upon the pay-ment by the latter of a small fee tocover the cost of laundrying towels,sterilizing material, etc. In his reportto the Board of County Commissionerson December 2, 1918, the health offi-cer reported more than 600 childrengiven dental treatment this year. In Franklin County, as in the caseof Madison, special arrangementswere made for the operation at Louis-burg of 73 children, for the removal oftonsils and adenoids. This work wasdone by a Raleigh James McConnell Memorial HospitalMoore County, N. C where more than half the defective childrendiscovered in the State Board of Healthsmedical inspection of schools were givenmedical, surgical, and dental treatment. MOORE COUNTY As a direct result of the medical in-spection of schools in Moore County,conducted by the State Board ofHealth in the early months of 1917,the management of the James McCon-nell Memorial Hospital situated at theSandhill Farm-life School in thatcounty, succeeded in getting a largenumber of children to come to the hos- pital for dental treatment. The planfollowed here was to allow each childto pay a small fee to cover the cost ofmaterial. A dentist from a near-bytown reported at the hospital with aportable outfit on a regular day eachweek. A separate room was assignedfor this work. As stated above a largenumber of children received dentaltreatme
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