The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-20
1EEh1ITIS Rf HRS
 kO TERRO0S FOR
 NASSAU CHILDREN
Red Cross Juniors Provide Mobile Dental Equipment as Part of Health
 Program

Lack of even ordinary care of the teeth on the part of many school chil- dren in Nassau county. Long Island, was revealed by the medical report of the schools of the county for 1917 and 1918.
 Many of the children never had any dental attention and those who were making regular visits to the dentists did so often to the detriment of their school work.
 From now on the 25,00o school chill dren of the seventy schools in the county need not go to the dentist, however. The dental car of the Junior Red Cross of Nassau county will attend to all that.
 pr. Vincent T. Meaney will operate the car as well as the tooth buzzer g With him will ride a nurse and both will be uniformed in white. In the car is a dental chair built especially for children and all apparatus for dental work. This mobile dental of fee will make the rounds of all the schools, fill teeth, detect bad tonsils for a surgeon to deal with and in gen eral insist on the clean teeth" motto of the modern school.
 The plan for the travelling dental shop was conceived and executed bl Mrs. E. c. Brewer of Roslyn, L. l.. chairman of the Red Cross Committee on Schools of the County.
 Proud of Experiment.
 Nassau County Chapter is very proud of its experiment" said Mrs Brewer. Already the experiment has proved to be a great success. It fills a very definite need in our county 1 am sure that in many communities there are many children who lack proper care of the teeth and should the Junior Red Cross in any town desire to start a Red Cross Dental Educational Car, let me give them some details. The car cost us $75O the prophylactic chair $50, instruments and case $244.31.
 That was the only initial expense and it was small enough when one considers the amount of good whict such an equipment can do in country districts where instructive medica measures are lacking. The dentist who is in charge of the mobile denta office has been engaged by the year Assisting him is a public health nurse who has been provided by the Boart of Education. The equipment was pur chased with the funds raised entirely by the school children of the Nassau County Junior Red Cross The chil dren know that the car belongs tt them. That is one reason for theil continuing interest and pride in it
 ''The Red Cross Dental Educationa Car makes the rounds of all school. in the community" continued Mrs Brewer. '"The nurse lists the thing to be done to the chi1dren's teeth ant the parents. Prices are low It cost 25 cents to have one tooth filled. 8! cents for two, and 45 cents for three Other work is charged for in propor tion. If family cannot afford tt nay the bill, the cost is charged III gainst the school. so that there cal be no charity stigma attached to th, project.
 Tn addition to the Dental Car, tn Junior Red Cross of Nassau Count, is to have a hospital all its own. Tn Nassau Hospital Association has givel a building at Mineola which has beel i named the Nassau County Junior Re, Cross Hospital Clinics will be hel, there for the school children. On hi rounds, Dr. Meaney will seek ou children who are in need of medica attention and refer them to the clinics The Nassau County Red Cross Medi cal Corps has offered to co-operat and will carry the youngsters from tn l outlying districts to the hospital"