BRITAIN’S 5 EVILS
THEIR FINANCIAL SIDE ANNUAL LQSS 50 MILLIONS. Ter Press Association, Copyright.) LONDON, July 25. Dr. Charles Childe, in his presidential address before the Congress of the British Medical Association at Portsmouth said the five most formidable epidemic scourges to-day were cancer, tuberculosis, rickets, .venereal disease, and alcoholism. He mphasised the evil effects of slum conditions. Omitting cancer, of which little was known, tuberculosis and rickets accounted foij most of the cripples. Cancer, tuberculosis, venereal disease and alcoholism accounted for most of the deaths, and venereal disease and alcoholism for most of the misery and moral degradation of our race. , . . Taking the cost of the country s sickness and disablement at £150,000,000 a year, the country could afford to spend £50,000,000 annually,-or £I,OOO, 000 capitalised at 5 per cent, m cleaning slum areas. *
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 9877, 26 July 1923, Page 5
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