VALUE OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
In the opinion of Mr. F. A. Waterhouse, a Citizens' candidate for the Hospital Board, the establishment of a children's hospital is vital in the interests of public health. It was imperative that the health of the future citizen's should have the fullest consideration during their childhood. Close contact with their sick elders would give them the impression that it would be quite the usual thing to be sick when they were older. Psychology played a great part in health, and everything possible should be done to avoid giving children at an impressionable age anything other than a health outlook If children could be made health-minded, it would mean so many less to.be catered for in the adult hospitals of the future. Hospital costs could only be reduced by reducing the amount of sickness, and no avenue leading in the, direction of better health must be left unexplored.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 100, 30 April 1938, Page 7
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152VALUE OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 100, 30 April 1938, Page 7
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