GENERAL MEDICAL EXAMINATION
"Dr. S. H. Goldwater, the Health Commissioner of New York, has announced a plan to have every one of the 5,000,000 of the city examined at least once a. year to determine his or her physical condition," says the Observer New York correspondent. " The plan is already in force among the employees of the Health Department. The Commissioner's next step will be to ask the Board of Estimates to authorise him to extend the system to all city employees. Eventually he hopes to apply it to all the inhabitants. "Dr Goldwater does not propose to make examination compulsory, and ho would allow individuals, if they desire it, to be examined by their own physicians at their own expense. He says that the plan would prolong life by three to five years by the prevention of communicable x diseases and by the early discovery of such diseases as cancer, Bright's disease, and tuberculosis. "A similar system is now in vogue in the New York Stock Exchange and several life insurance companies.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 14
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173GENERAL MEDICAL EXAMINATION Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 14
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