EARL ASQUITH’S FORTUNE.
“FIRST WEALTH IS HEALTH .” Loudon, Dec. 12. The Earl of Oxford and Asquitli, who is the founder of the new Health Society, speaking at the Aldwych Club, 1 said there was no subject on which such nonsense was written as health. “I. have been on the most distant bowing terms with doctors for 70 years,” he said. “It is not because of any strict, self-imposed regimen, but by. good fortune and the grace of Providence, that I' have escaped the doctors’ well-meant intentions.
“There is a disquieting economic loss of probably 100,000,000' a year due to preventable illness, particularly ignorance and carelessness in diet. Adults are meat. excessively while children have insufficient milk. It is useless to preach, the laws of health, while people are crowded into miserable, sordid and unhealthy tenements.”
The new Health Society has adopted the motto “The first wealth is health.” It includes eminent scientists, doctors, and business men, and has launched a campaign with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the simple laws of health and preventing instead of curing disease.
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Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 551, 28 December 1925, Page 6
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