EMPLOYERS PAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 291, 8 December 1937, Page 15

EMPLOYERS PAY.

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LONDON.

Nervous dlaordeia among •work'i* are responsible for the lom to employer® of 10,00,000 week* In working time each year according to Sir Farquhar Blizzard, Physician-in-Ordinaly to the King. Ho spoke at a meeting of industrialists in London organ wed by the Council of the Tavistock Chmc, Market Place, VV.C. The Duke of Kent presided. . The meeting marked the launching ot a campaign for £300.000 and a yearly income of £20,000 for extensions, including the training of more psychotherapist* for industrial "centres. Sir Farnuhar Buzzard said: It was found recently that one in 14 of the working population suffer from nervous disorders to the extent of treatment. Of the people examined *) per cent had less severe symptoms, another 20 per cent showed tom*. At lefiAt one-tlnrd of all sicknes# of this country is due to causes which are not organic in origin. "We doctors contend that a very 1 , number of those cases are Preventable or curable. That number would he kicreaserl every year if there were more doctors trained to deal *#th them. In addition, efficiency and happiness among workers would be enhanced. t lk : n „ Tho Duke of Kent heard ft talkin_ film deliver « personal address to mn at the meeting. It was recorded b> Mr Owen tfares, and referred to the share in tho clinic's campaign agawwt nervous illness.