TUBERCULOSIS
A DOCTOR’S STATEMENT. i .•.•,*.O'. - l.' . (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) ADELAIDE, May 15. The Inspector-General of Hospitals, Dr Morris, giving evidence before the Federal Health Commission, said that the idea that climate affected tuberculosis had been exploded. As an instance, lie pointed out that in*'.Dudley, England, which he described as one of the smokiest and filthiest,\itnd apparently one of the most unhygienic towns in England, the' incidence of tuberculosis was less than iff a popular health‘resort, such as Bournemouth. 1 The'mdst successful British''sanatoria'were in the highlands 7 'of the bleakest spots in the British\lsles, :ind the best results m the cure df tuberculosis in Europe were obtained iff Finland, and on the fiords of Ndrway. It was a question more of housing and. good food than .climate. * •**; ;7 :...
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 May 1925, Page 5
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