LIVES TWICE AS LONG.
BI'T r.ETTEi; HEALTH STILL POSSIBLE. Though the pverage duration of life has be?n more than doubled in the last thousand years, yet it is still necessary to ficht vigorously against the ""desrradinrr" influences which civilisation has brought in its train, declared Dr. S. Henning Belfrage. Hon. medical secretary of the Xew Healtli Society, at a conference held in London. He said that progress in civilisation had removed many of the dangers which threatened the well-being of mankind, and now the forces of nature were often harnessed for its utility. Far too many people were content with a lower standard of health than they really might enjoy. Disease and ilihealth were too often looked upon as the decrees of fate instead of the working of natural laws. The result of general ignorance in matters of health was shown in 473,000 deaths in England last year. With the exception of fewer than 50.000, these deaths were due to what were believed to be preventable diseases.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 78, 2 April 1927, Page 25
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