Report on Dental Services with the 2 NZEF from ADDS to DDMS, 1 February 1941:

Paragraph 7. The examination of units of the first contingent indicates that extensive treatment would be necessary to render these troops TOTALLY dentally fit and that it would take 3 to 4 months to produce a contingent requiring no further dental attention. But it is now 14 months since organised treatment was carried out, such treatment being directed towards rendering the contingent completely dentally fit, and therefore this present position came as no surprise. It was never anticipated that the present opportunity of ‘reservicing’ the contingent would become available, so that actually the position might have been worse.

Therefore from a broad outlook and considering the effect of the present dental conditions on their efficiency as healthy soldiers, one can only state that the dental health of the first contingent is satisfactory, providing that all cases which may otherwise give trouble in the near future are attended to while in Helwan Camp, i.e., a practical rather than a total dental fitness might need to be aimed at as regards the first contingent.