ALL SHOULD LIVE BEYOND 50.
STATE AID NEEDED TO "WARD OFF PREVENTIBLE CONDITIONS OF DEATH. Sir George Newman says:—'“Death under fifty or sixty years of age has got, to bo prevented or avoided, and the niedica] practitioner is the primaiy agent in the task.” , That declaration he makes in a memorandum on medical education in England addressed to the President of the Board of Education.
Something approaching* revolutionary reform in preventive medicine is needed, he adds. Medicinal education is starved, together with research. There must be more substantial aid from the State. _ . Heart disease causes one-third of the deaths, between fifty-five and sixty-five, and is one of the most disabling foams of disease. Much of it is due to prcventible conditions, of which mechanical strain in infective disease are commonly responsible. If. is in the workshop and in the personal habit of the individual that reform must come. Heart disease ic* t therefore, partly a problem of preventive medicine, which lias already raised the expectation of life at birth from forty years in 1838-54 to fifty-one.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 5003, 18 October 1918, Page 7
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