BRITAIN’S HEALTH
AN EXCEPTIONAL YEAR LONDON, October 10. “An exceptionally healthy year in England and Wales, perhaps the healthiest of which we_ have record,” is the conclusion of Sir George Newman, chief medical officer of the Ministry of Health, arrives at in his annual report for 1928.
While the birth rate decreases, so does the death rate The general population is becoming “older.” By 1950 he prophesies that the middle-aged and elderly will be more than twice as numerous as the children.
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Evening Star, Issue 20318, 29 October 1929, Page 9
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82BRITAIN’S HEALTH Evening Star, Issue 20318, 29 October 1929, Page 9
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