Connecticut western news., 1920-02-19
DENTISTRY HAS NO TERRoas 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 25,0oo school chil- dren of the seventy schools in the county need not go to the dentist. however. The dental cr of the Junior Red Cross of Nassau county win attend to all that.
 l Dr. Vincent T. Meaney will operate the car as well as the tooth buxzer. With him will ride a nurse and both will be uniformed in white. In the car is dental chair built especially for children and all apparatus for dental work. This mobile dental of Ice win make the rounds of all the schools, fill teeth, detect bad tonsils for 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 by Mrs. E. c. Brower of Roslyn, l.. l.. chairman of the Red Cross Committee on Schools of the County. M Proud of Experimens.
 'Nassau county Chapter is very proud of it's experiment." said Mrs.
 Brewer. Already the experiment. has
 proved to be q great success. It flls
 a very definite need in our county. IT am sure thaf irl, many communities
 there are many chtldren who lack
 proper care Of the te4th and should tho Junior Red Cross fn any town
 desire to start . Red cross Dental Educational Car, let me give them
 some details. The car cost us ST50
 the prophylactic chair ss0, instruments
 and case $144.sI.
 | @That was the only initial expense
 and 1t was small enough when one
 considers the amount of good which
 such1 an eqaipmenk can do in country
 districts where instructive medica'
 measures arc lacking. The dentist who is in eharge Of the mobile denta' ofBce has bssa engaged by Ehe year Assisting hfmfEis a p6blic health nurse who has been provided by the Boart of Education The equipment was pur ! chased with the funds raised entirel, } by the school children of the Nassas County Junior Red Cross. The chil , dren know that the car belongs [,
 them. That is one reason for thei continuing interest and pride in if ii "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 children's teeth an, submits an estimate of the cost t | the parents. Prices are low. It cost | 25 cents to have one tooth filled. 3 : cents for two, and 45 cents for three q Other work is charged for in propol , ton. If family cannot afford { pay the bill, the cost is charged u ! against the school, so that there ca |, be no Charity stigma attached to tn . project.
 : Tn addition to the Dental Car, tn s Junior Red Cross of Nassau Count : is to have hospital all it's own Tn : Nassau Hospital Association has give
 B building at Mineola which has bee
 named the Nassau County Junior Re Cross Hospital. Clinics will be hel s there for the school children. On hi ? rounds, Dr. Meaney will seek or t children who are in need of medic:
 attention and refer them to the clinic K The Nassau County Red Cross Med d cal Corps has offered to co-operat b and will carry the youngsters from th
 outlying districts to the hospital"