BRITAIN'S HEALTH SERVICES

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22195, 11 September 1937, Page 15

BRITAIN'S HEALTH SERVICES

NEW MEASURES ANNOUNCED (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY, September 9. The Minister for Health (Sir Kingsley Wood), addressing Welsh local authorities at Cardiff, announced a number of national health projects and social schemes to be undertaken in the next 12 months. He hoped early in the new session to introduce in the House of Commons two important measures, one to reduce the age limit for the award of pensions to the blind, and the other to provide medical care for young persons who had left school. At least 300,000 new- homes would be required to complete the present slum clearance and overcrowding programme. The campaign to make motherhood still safer would be intensified with the aid of the new midwifery service. The problem of nutrition must occupy more and more of the attention of the nation, and the basis of the nutrition policy would be further extended by making provision to enable milk to be made safer, and by extending its supply further to mothers. Local authorities would be in a position to extend their present schemes under which milk was made available either free or at a reduced price as circumstances might require. The nation must not only ensure safeguards against disease but actively promote good health. Large sums were spent on health and housing services, greater perhaps than by any country in the world, but this money was a great national investment, for it returned a high dividend in better homes, improved health, and longer lives. DOUGLAS AIR LINER SETS RECORD ♦ • MELBOURNE TO SYDNEY IN LESS THAN TWO HOURS (Received September 10, 11.40 p.m.) SYDNEY, September 10. A Douglas air liner employed on the Adelaide-Sydney-Brisbane route to-day covered the distance between Melbourne and Sydney, more than 500 miles, carrying 15 passengers, in the record time of 1 hour 55 minutes. Favoured with a gale-like tail wind between Canberra and Sydney, the j machine attained a speed of 275 ■ miles an hour.