FRAIL SEX.
DOCTORS DIFFER AGAIN.
LONDON, May 12. , "It has been shown that women are less liable to serious disease, that they live longer, and meet with fewer accidents than men," said Dr. Gordon, a pathological expert, addressing the Medico Legal Society. "But," he added, "the attitude of the insurance companies was a relic of, the days when the average girl iay on a .couch, eating chocolates and reading a novelette. Nowadays, she led a more active and healthier life than her brothers." Other doctors dissented from this view, believing that gills went through more sickness though they lived longer. "The general practitioner would be ►in the workhouse without women p»tiente/' eai4 one, J
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 114, 17 May 1927, Page 7
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