NEVER BETTER.
BRITAIN'S HEALTH CONDITIONS, i • » SERIOUS WARNING ISSUED. jUnited Press Association— Copyright). LONDON, September 15. In spite of the depression Sir George Newman (Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health) states Britain is healthier than at any other time m history. The people are learning more of the art of living, and are enjoying better housing, increasing sobriety, and an extension of the public medical services. The death rate from tuberculosis has fallen from 92 per 1000 to 69, from pneumonia from 149 per 1000 to 113.
However, Sir George Newman gives the warning that continued unemployment may produce mental instability among adult men and prolonged undernourishment among women and children.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 288, 16 September 1933, Page 5
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