HEALTH SERVICES
Sir,-—"E.B.’S” tilt at your leading article prompts *a rejoinder. The Health Department, as a tax-supported organisation must appear to condone, rather than forthrightly condemn, our darling dissipations, our auto-intoxi-cations with nicotine and alcohol, tannin, theo-bromine and uric acid, superrefined foodstuffs, and the thousand and one drugs and serums, suppressants and alternatives which folk fondly fancy can free them from the ill consequences of thpir infractions of natural and moral law. What few of us, vet realise is that the skill which may. but often does not. ward oft diphtheria, whooping-cough, and theit ilk—th’s cunning incurs an account payable later in terms of diabetes of tuberculosis. cancer, insanity, or heart disease. For Health Department advertisements. some sound, some indifferent. some buncombe, We pay. But we will not do the one thing needful for our well-being: change our habits. —Yours, etc., WEE MacGREGOR. October 30, 1946.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25020, 31 October 1946, Page 2
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146HEALTH SERVICES Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25020, 31 October 1946, Page 2
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