BRITAIN'S NATIONAL HEALTH
URGENT PROBLEM AFTER THE WAtt London, November 1. Sir Auckland Geddes (Minister of National Service), in a speech at a luncheon of tho Federation of British Industries, said the most urgent problem after the war would be the i national health. Nothing was more appalling than the re< suits of the military service medical examinations. Hundreds of thousands of men of military age were found to ba dying of preventable tuberculosis. He was not surprised at the industrial unrest; ho only wondered that there had not been a revolution : years ago. We had taken more interest in prize pigs than in British manhood.
Industrial Questions. Dr. Addison (Minister of Reconstruction) said that the Government's first business after the waf must be the reestublisluuont and protection of the basio industries and the liberation of raw materials. Industry must be freed at the earliest possible date—Aus.-N.Z.' Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 34, 4 November 1918, Page 4
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