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Show I WREN'S TEETH This is whal nnp rity has calnd iff taking rare of its childrrns' tpoih In Bridccpori . Conn., there lives a (iontist. Dr Alfred C. Fones. He is a man with a vision He believed th-st he could raise the physical and mental standard of the children in his city by clcanlnp up their mouths and. after several years of persistent effort, he finally succeeded in obtaining an appropriation ap-propriation of $5,000 from the city government with which to try his experiment ex-periment The work consisted of cleaning the children's teeth, tooth brush drills, lectures on mouth care to older children and education in the home by means of pamphlets As time went on. the appropriations were increased in-creased so that now after five yean the city of Hridcennrt employs twenty -Six dental hp!enists in its schools Altogether twenty thousand children received the service and instruction. instruc-tion. Recenth Dr Fones has delivered bis report and the results aro good enough 10 tominco even the most spektical. Fust, on the economic side, it show:-that show:-that retardation that is, the failure to pass from one grade into another I in 1912 averaged forty; in 1918. after1 five years of intensive dental care, it has fallen to 20.1 or almost 50 pr' rent. The following figures will give, .in idea what it means in dollar? an-J . n;s The cost of re-education in ' Fridgeporf for 1912 equalled 42 per cent of the entire budget In 1918 it was reduced to 17 per cent. Second, the effect on the health h' I been as follows: Disease 1914. 1918. M Diphtheria . .36 6 18 1 Jj . M.-.-l.s . . 20. 0 7 1 I Scarlet fever 14.1 0.5 A In addition there has been a redu:- ii tion of 33 9 per cent in the decay of1 permanent teeth i These figures speak for themselves, , but in addition there is the impru ment in ihe general health which has I. enabled the children to resist the infection in-fection of the communicable diseases, and as an increase in the average in-M in-M telllgence of the future generation J which of course cannot be reduced to T figurej. The citizens of Bridgeport a I have certainly made a good invesi- i ment |