“SEE A DOCTOR”
PERIODICAL EXAMINATION SCHEME ENCOURAGED BY INSURANCE COMPANIES. Preas Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. - LONDON, November 25. (Received November 26, at 2 p.m.) “Feel lit? Then see a doctor,” is tho recommendation of Mr Meredith Atkinson, in outlining tho latest plan of the New Health Society for a national campaign to prevent disease by regular medical examination, which the New York Extension of Life Institute successfully inaugurated. Tins plan. Air Atkinson stated, Ims aided insurance companies, one of which claims that tho scheme, which was adopted in 1914. has resulted in an IS per cent, drop in the death rate of policy holders, and in another company, a 23 per edit. drop. Three British companies are now including periodical examination as a policy holder’s privilege, and tho plan has been.-.suf-ficiently successful to warrant its com tinuancc.—United Service.
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Evening Star, Issue 20033, 26 November 1928, Page 6
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