Show DEFECTIVE TEETH AND STUDENTS efficiency defective teeth in the school children of utah ire are the chief cause of malnutrition or oi under nourishment and in some districts of the state the percentage of children with bad teeth luns inns a trifle over 90 per cent declared dr heber J sears head of the department of hygiene and preventive medicine at the university of utah it takes the average child with de teeth six months longer to complete his eight grades in school than it does the normal child diseased tonsils or adenoids aden also retard the child in it his studies at school according to statistics at the university any church society or any other organization of the state may receive the benefit of health lectures sent out by the university without cost dr sears is now nov devoting practically all his time to lecturing on vital problems of health and social problems connected with nith health already this fall he has reached nearly y people twenty four other lecturers mostly physicians are also available for these extension health lectures furnished by the university |