HEALTH EDUCATION
A talk on adult health education was given to members of the Wellington Rotary Club on Tuesday by Dr. H. Turbott. of the Health*Department, who said that much more could be done toward achieving a higher health standard if people would only take the to acquire a few simple principles. National defects accrued because people did not know enough. Those who drank raw milk were running a fair risk of contracting diseases easily spread through that medium. Only last year in a northern district some 40 cases ; of scarlet fever developed through people drinking raw milk. Dr. Turbott also spoke of the value,of immunization from diphtheria by inoculation. There were still those who objected to such treatment. What he could say was that children so inoculated were much less likely to contract the ailment. If they did contract it they were much less likely to die. It gave, 'he said, 97 per cent, protection. Much the same could be said for vaccination against typhoid.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 309, 24 September 1943, Page 9
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