A HEALTHIER RACE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 29, 29 October 1917, Page 6

A HEALTHIER RACE

OUE GREAT TASK AFTER THE WAK. At a meeting held in the Guildhall, London, in connection with Baby Week, the speakers included Lord Rhondda and Mr. Hayes Fisher (President of the Board of Education). A message was read from the Queen, in which Her Majesty eaid that the welfare of the children of the country was very near to her heart, and it was her profound hope that overything possible might be done to safeguard their health and promote their happiness.

lord Rhondda 6aid lis was glad he had been at the Local Government Board, even for six months, for it had opened his eyes to things which really mattered. It showed him that the great object they N mu6t have after this war was the saving of life and prevention of disease and suffering. There must be a healthier race throughout the Empire. Mr. Fisher Raid that when they considered that 100,000 children were born dead during the year, and that 100.GOO died under the age of 12 months, and that this roll of oasnalties, equal to the casualties in one of tho greatest and moat protracted battlea of the war, was further aggravated by the largo numbers who were debilitated for life owing to the conditions in which they were reared, thev would realise how appalling wp= the stiito of affairs. The public mind had been exorcised upon a long series of military and medical blunders, hut this blunder of our swollen rate of infantile mortolity was perennial. Less drunkenness, loss vice, nnd better housing conditions were hmong tho remedies which he advocated.