STURDY CHALLENGE
CASES OF MALNUTRITION
CITY MISSIONER'S STAND
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
A challenge to the Minister of Health (the, Hon. J. A. Young) to spend a day visiting the homes of. some, of the families "of whose malnutrition there is (to. him) no evidence" was made today by the City Missioner (the Rev. Jasper Calder). He said that if the Minister would only; take a littlo more personal interest in. the organisations fighting for the health of the nation he would possibly make fewer mistakes. Mr. Calder quotes from a report of the mission's honorary doctor that, fully 80 per cent, of the cases seen by him were occasioned in some degree by insufficient food either in quantity or quality. Mr. Galder irivitestho Minister to learn from^this doctor the true position. ' '""■'..
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 120, 24 May 1933, Page 10
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134STURDY CHALLENGE Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 120, 24 May 1933, Page 10
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