KNOCKED-KNEED GIRLS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10316, 27 January 1927, Page 7

KNOCKED-KNEED GIRLS

BAD' FEEDING BLAMED. ’ SIR A. LANE S OPINION. LONDON, Nov. 26. “Disease should be regarded as a crime; people have no right to be ill:, it is easy to prevent people getting ill but you can do nothing or little to cure them.” These words of medical wisdom wore spoken last night by Sir Viliiam Arbutlinot Lane, discussing “Advertising and Health,” before the Publicity Club of London, at the HotM Cecil. He said the General Medical Council had a good rule that no medical man should advertise any treatment by means of which lie was likely to gain patients. He had no hestitation in going t-o the public, because in preserving the health of people it was impossible lor them to come to him as patients. “As you know,” Sir V il'iam proceeded, “we have had a tussle with the British Medical Association which represents half the doctors in England. The other half are not in the association, and probably they have no desire to be, and regard tiie association as somewhat of a trade union. Not that I don't think trade unions good, but from a professional point of view one is nut particularly interested in them.”

C 3 IN T 9 Al, He pointed out that we bore a simple mechanical relationship to our surroundings, and if the relationship was altered the anatomy was altered. Everything we do to alter the anatomy tends to shorten liie. * As an illustration he quoted the case of a coal-heaver who, in England, had to carry two hundredweights of coal on his back and shoot it down a hole. As a result, his spine became locked and his chest fixed: he breathed with his abdomen, and with a small amount of pneumonia he died readily. Commenting on the graceful carriage of native girls, he said it was quite unusual to see a good pair ot legs here. So many English girls nowadays were bow-legged or knockkneed, the result of bad feeding when they were young. Tlie New Health Society was going on like an avalanche, and would convert our C 3 people into an Al people. There were some doctors who did not care a hang what happened to their patients so long as they got their fees.