"A WILLOWY FIGURE."
TRAGEDY OF MANY GIRLS. THE RISK OF CONSUMPTION. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) * (Received This Dav, 10.20 a.m.) > LONDON, Feb. 13. Sir Harry Bruce Porter (lute SurgeonGeneral in the British Army), speaking: on behalf of the co-operative convalescent fund in London, said it was a tragedv seeing so many girls trying to* get' willowy figures. "Why girls -wanifc to look like weak, weedy young men I cannot imagine," he said, "but they will get that figure and with it digestive trouble and the risk of consumption."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 10670, 15 February 1926, Page 4
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