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the colony of South Australia; nor is there, and never was, any
dental school
In the beginning of 1893 twenty dentists were practicing in
the colony, mostly in Adelaide.









TASMANIA.

(BRITISH COLONY.)

Area, 26,215 square miles. Population, 151,480.
Capital, Hobart; population, 21,118.
Through the courtesy of Dr. A. Lucadou Wells, Honorary
Dental Surgeon at the General Hospital at Launceston, we are
able to give the following account of dentistry of Tasmania.
The first law regarding the practice of dentistry in Tasmania
dates from November 24, 1884, and reads as follows:

An Act to Provide for the Registration of Dentists Quali-
fied to Practice in Tasmania.
[November 24, 1884.]
Whereas, It is expedient that provision be made for the regis-
tration of persons specially qualified to practice as dentists in<
Tasmania, and that the law relating to persons practicing as dent-
ists be otherwise amended:

Be it therefore Enacted by His Excelle?icy the Governor of Tasmania,
by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and
House of Assembly , in Parliament assembled, as follows:
"
1. The short title of this Act is The Dentists Act, 1884."
2. In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context:
" Dentist " means a person registered under this Act:
a " " "
Registration and registered respectively mean regis-
tration under this Act, and registered under this Act
"The said Act" means the Act of the Imperial Parliament
to amend the law relating to dental practitioners, and
cited as the Dentists Act, 1878.
"Registrar" means the Registrar of Births, Deaths and
Marriages.
3. From and after the first day of January, one thousand eight
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