The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-11
So - 1872
TOOTH CENSUS
IN NEW YORK
Children Found With
Defective Teeth.
CONDITIONS WERE ALARMING
The City May Be Cooled With
Ikeberys.
Z Greater whsts Way b Protested For
FiftA Avs.se--csmbin.tssa 4,
Auto And Air machine
Has Been Fsuna.
CONDITIONS WERE ALARMING


New York, July ia million dollar
dentist bill II the latest financial prob
lem to confront this city. and II 10 like
ly that by beginning next fall New
York will invest this amount annual
ly in teeth. In an effort to guard
against . toothisss population. The
Bureau Of Municipal Research has Just
made public the result OF rs investi-
CATION OF the condition Of the teeth
Of the school children In this city. re-
vsaling shocking condition which
leaves the city only the choice OF an
enormous expenditure for dental work
on Juvenile masticators or the early
certainty Of practically toothlsss
race. According to the figures COLI
1ected, out OF the first 500 children
examined only fourteen had sound
teeth. In other words more than 81
per cent Of the children were in need
OF dental treatment which they could
not afford. The number OF defective
teeth found In this first examination
was 2,s0S, or nearly six to each child.
and OF these more than 10 per cent
were beyond help. A. a result OF the
surprising condition made known by
this preliminary investigation, a gem
eral tooth census has just been COM
pleted. or the 3S6.744 school children
examined nearly 100000 were found to
be in need Of dental treatment. Even
record shows that over 10000 teeth
cannot be saved. AS this represents
returns from only about one-tweifth Of
the city's total population, 1t IL esti-
mated. taking into consideration the
increased percentage among older per-
sons, that the city has no less than
3oo00,00o teeth which IL they do not
receive repairs will become total
loss. It Is as q result Of these revela-
tions that Father Knickerbocker is
preparing to foot gigantic dentist bill
for school children In an effort to pre-
vent the coming Of toothiess age.
To Use Iceberxs.
New York's summer days may yet
be tempered by the cooling influence
OF icebergs, and this In spite Of the
some years ago organized a company
with the idea of chartering steamer
catching an iceberg In the northern
regions to be flowed back and anchored
In the harbor, the whole plan was
laughed down as impossible. It was
pointed out then that while II would
be easy to capture an iceberg whose
presence In the upper bay would un-
doubtedly lower the temperature.
there would be an insuperabie diff
Guilty In getting the iceberg here be-
fore II melted. Bat while this objec-
ton is still as true as ever. there Is no
longer any doubt that New York In
certain parts at least is soon to be
cooled by icebergs. They will not
however ne brought from the north,
but manufactured on the spot AL
ready on the roof garden OF the Hotel
Aston mammoth ice machine has
been Installed which will manufacture
a good-sized berg and keep 1t perpet-
ually renewed as well. thus doing away
with the problem OF loss by melting.
Experts figure that this artificial berg
which In Its size would gladden. the
heart Of any ice man, will materially
reduce the surrounding temperature.
This being the case. II is only ques-
ton of a short time before the tame
iceberg will supplant the electric fan
and the dream laughed at few years
ago as impossible be realized. Indeed
II has already been suggested that
bergs be maintained in various squares
In the city.
Already famous for its Great White
Way-the name by which Broadway Is
generally known--a movement is now
on foot to establish here a Greater
White Way--a boulevard which Will
surpass such famous thoroughfares in
Europe as the Rue de la Patx In Paris,
Regent Street in London. or even the
famous Inter den Linden in Berlin. It
IL not Broadway. however. but the all
ready famous Fifth Avenue which an
organization Of the greatest property
owners, residents and tenants along
Rnw II a.