The Wage-Earner's Teeth
The urgency of more adequate dental treatment for the mass the workers of this country, emphasised in a recent article and su sequent correspondence in our columns, is still further stressed in memorandum which the War Council of the British Dental Assoc, tion has addressed to the Interdepartmental Committee on S Insurance and Allied Services, presided over by Sir Willi• Beveridge. The effect of dental disease on digestion and gene health is quite inadequately realised by the average layman, comma place though it is to every doctor as well as every dentist ; the tru that money spent on extending dental treatment, particularly in case of the adolescent who has just left school, can be counted on obviate a much larger expenditure on sick-relief later needs impre ing on every voter as well as on every Member of Parliament. Pr ventive treatment, not extraction, is what is needed, and what, f large sections of the population today, is so largely lacking. Ti' is reason to believe that Sir William Beveridge's committee is all to the situation and it is to be hoped that its recommendations this field will be comprehensive. If they are the Government of Jay must be pressed by all reasonable means to adopt them.
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