MODERN DISEASES
MEDICAL MAN’S SUMMARY.
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LONDON, July 25. Dr Charles Childe, in his presidential address before the Congress of the British Medical Association at Portsmouth, said that the five most formidable epidemic scourges to-day wore cancer, tuberculosis, rickets, venereal disease, and ■alcoholism. He emphasised the evil eft'ects_ of slum conditions. Tuberculosis and rickets accounted for most of the cripples. Cancer, tuberculosis, venereal disease, and alcoholism accounted for the most deaths, and venereal disease and alcoholism for most of the misery and moral ■ degradation of our race. Taking the cost of the country’s sickness and disablement at £1150,000,000 annually, the country could afford to spend £60,000,000 annually, or _ £1,000,000,000 capitalised at 5 per cent., in clearing the slum areas.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18337, 26 July 1923, Page 2
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124MODERN DISEASES Evening Star, Issue 18337, 26 July 1923, Page 2
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