NATIONALISATION OF HEALTH.
VIEWS OF MR. HAVELOCK ELLIS
“It was inevitable that we should some day have to face the problem of medical reorganisation in a social basis,” writes Mr. Havelock Ellis in the “Chronicle.” “Along many lines social progress has led to the initiation of movements for the improvement of public health. But they are still incomplete and imperfectly co-ordinated. We have never realised that the great questions of health cannot safely be left to municipal tinkering and the patronage of Bumbledom. The result is chaos and a terrible waste, not only if what we call 'hard cash,’ but also of 'onsitive flesh and blood, a commodity even more precious than cash. Health, there cannot be the slightest doubt, is a vastly more fundamental and important matter than education, to say nothing of such minor matters as the post office, or the telephone system. Yet we have nationalised l these before even giving a thought to the nationalisation of health.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3294, 12 August 1911, Page 9
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