NATIONAL HEALTH
INFLUENZA CAUSES GREAT LOSS London, September 2. Tne Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health (Sir George Newman), in a striking declaration on the / national health in his annual report, looking back over fifty years, says that it will be found that grave epidemic diseases have almost disappeared, and man lives longer because his childhood is healthier. But against this he points out that cancer has gained ground and tuberculosis is very prevalent, while pneumonic influenza is an undefeated sickness, which results in immense loss on the national output of work, amounting last year to 25,000,000 weeks, or practically a year’s loss of work by half a million persons.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 291, 4 September 1926, Page 9
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112NATIONAL HEALTH Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 291, 4 September 1926, Page 9
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