“ESCAPED’’ THE DOCTORS
EARL ASQUITH’S FORTUNE
“FIRST WEALTH IS HEALTH.”
LONDON, Dec. 12. The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, who is the founder of the new Health Society, speaking at the Aldwycli Club, said there was no subject on which so much nonsense was written as health. ...... “I have been on the most distant bowing terms with doctors for (0 years,” he said. “It is not because of any strict, self-imposed regimen, but bv good fortune and the grace or Providence, that I have escaped the doctors’ well-meant attentions. “There is a disquieting economic loss of nrobably £400,000,000 a year duo to preventable illness, particularly ignorance and carelessness in dieL Adults eat meat excessively, and children have'insufficient milk. It is useless to preach the laws of health while people are crowded into miserable, sordid and unhealthy tene--111 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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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10193, 4 January 1926, Page 5
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