Excerpt from Free Dental Clinics in North Carolina: Traveling Dental Service for Rural School Children During the Summer of 1918

We have endeavored to set forth in this pamphlet a detailed record of the first effort ever made in North Carolina, or so far as we know anywhere in the United States, to provide at public expense traveling dental service free of cost to rural school children. The work was inaugurated by the Bureau of Medical Inspection of Schools, largely in the nature of an experiment, as an integral part of the "follow-up" work of the inspection.

We have made many mistakes, some inexcusable, but most of them unavoidable. A beginning has been made, however, in a great field of service for the children of the State; and in the years to come that beginning will be looked upon as an event of historic importance, because it is something that has come to stay.

There have been many difficulties in the way of success; some have been overcome, some have not, but will be. There have been many sleepless nights and much hard work, but the success achieved has more than repaid for all the disappointments. We have learned that helping little children is one of the greatest things in the world.

The writer takes great pleasure in acknowledging the valuable assistance of the following named gentlemen, whose advice and encouragement made success much easier: The North Carolina Dental Society, as a whole, but especially its President, Dr. R. M. Squires; and the President of the State Board of Dental Examiners, Dr. J. Martin Fleming; Dr. W. S. Rankin, Secretary of the North Carolina State Board of Health, and Dr. B. E. Washburn, representing the International Health Board. Of course success would have been impossible without the hard work and personal sacrifice of the dentists doing the work, and the county health officers locally responsible. The dentists were Drs. G. W. Holliday, H. L. Keel, J. G. Poole, R. E. Spoon, J. V. Turner, and J. F. West. The health officers were Drs. A. C. Bulla, Forsyth County; L. H. Coffey, Caldwell County; Wm. M. Jones, Guilford County; T. M. Jordan, Nash County; E. F. Long, Davidson County; J. S. Mitchener, Lenoir County; W. A. McPhaul, Robeson County; F. M. Register, Northampton County, and L. J. Smith, Wilson County.

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