BETTER HEALTH IN BRITAIN
U.S. Medical Men To Probe
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i Received May 16, 7 p.m. i RUGBY. May 15.
The United Slates is sending to Britain a committee of American medical men to try to find out why the people have come through the winter’s ordeal with better health than in the years of peace. Medical men generally are completely baffled by the nation's fitness. They had feared that, after the nights of crowding in air-raid shelters and exposure to all weathers when on A.R.P. and fire-watching duties, epidemics might sweep the country There have been fewer cases of scarlet fever, diphtheria, pneumonia and typhoid fever and only half the number of deaths from influenza. Whooping cough and meningitis alone have been rather more prevalent than usual.
Britain’s own doctors offer various explanations, among them the dispersal from the densely-populated areas, the improved system of health supervision, tlie spread of education in preventive measures and tbe fewer people tit 'he cinemas and in other public places
All. however, are agreed that lite busy and hazardous life that is led by forty million people leaves them neither time nor inclination to brood over their minor ailments.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 197, 17 May 1941, Page 12
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199BETTER HEALTH IN BRITAIN Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 197, 17 May 1941, Page 12
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