HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE
GAINS AND RISKS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 15. (Received September 16, at 1 a.m.) Despite the _ depression, Sir George Newman (Chief Medical Officer of Health) states that Britain is healthier than at any other time in its history. People aro learning more about the art of living, and, mainly through hotter housing, increasing sobriety, and the extension of public medical services, the death rate from tuberculosis has fallen from 92 per 1,000 to 69, and in the case of pemnnonia from 149 to 113. But Sir George Newman warns that continued unemployment may produce mental instability in adult men and prolonged under-nourishjncnt in women imd children.
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Evening Star, Issue 21518, 16 September 1933, Page 13
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111HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE Evening Star, Issue 21518, 16 September 1933, Page 13
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