Man-Power and the Army Dental Service. Edited by D. F.
Pennefather, M.P. (Published by the Editor at 25 Victoria Street,
S.W. 6d.)—Mr. Pennefather's pamphlet, issued on behalf of the Parliamentary Committee on the Relation of Military Dental Service to Man-Power, shows that skilled dentists are invaluable to an army, and also that the War Office has been somewhat slow to recognize the fact. It is not pleasant to find that when Mr. Parker-Cater in 1915 offered a fully equipped dental van to the War Office, through the Red Cross, his offer was rejected ; the French Red Cross, however, asked him to equip two such vans and now has many of them. We are also told that while the Army employs only five hundred and seventeen dental surgeons—about a third as many as there are in the French Army—six hundred qualified dentists are still employed in combatant and other non- dental services, where their skill is wasted. Mr. Pennefather makes out a strong case for a reorganization of this essential part of the Army Medical Service.
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