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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 124, 19 February 1938, Page 10 (Supplement)

“The time lost from rheumatic dis- | eases represents a total incapacity of i five and a half millions of weeks every : year. If you look at the nAmetary side of it, and if you take into'account the wages lost on account of the disease, the annual cost of industrial rheurna- ■ tism in this country is about' £17,000.000 a year,” said fcir Kingsley Wood, Minister of Health,, in a recent speech. If you look at the minor ail ments like colds and influenza they account for about 25 per cent, to-day of the absences from work. 1 had a very good example given me when it was found that in one staff composed of about 6000 men and women, on an ave-. rage about 18 per cent, were absent | from colds alone during each year.” J