A GOOD HEALTH WEEK

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 17, 15 October 1926, Page 8

A GOOD HEALTH WEEK

Those responsible for the organisation of Health Week this year are to be congratulated on the admirable series ol public lectures by professional men and women which have bdl'ti arranged for the benefit of the citizens. The syllabus covers the ground very thoroughly, and the topics dealt with touch upon matters which come within the daily and familiar experience of everyone. Though some people may find rather irksome the routine of personal duties which are laid down by our medical authorities as essential to good health, there is no doubt about the interest of the individual in the subject of health itself. The danger may be, and sometimes is. that this interest may tempt him to be led astray by irresponsible nostrums and faddist . ideas. Here is where the personal contact between the qualified professional man and the public is most valuable. He is accepted as an authority, and his words and advice are listened to with respect. One may hope that the experience of this.year’s Health Week will encourage more frequent meetings between medical and dental practitioners and other authorities 011 public health in the future. Medical science is becoming increasingly concerned with the preventive aspect of disease. The prevention of disease is likely to keep the medical profession just as busy as the curing of ailments, and in this aspect of their work regular contact with the public through the medium of such occasions as Health Week should be as valuable to them as it is to their audiences.