WEAKER SEX
A DOCTO’RS OBSERVANCE LONDON, August 1. “Women, whatever they may do in the way of breaking swimming and other records, are the weaker sex,” said Dr NT, Tatter,sail, speaking at the Congress of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Institute of Hygiene at Harrogate, England.
“Their physical make-up is such that they cannot stand the strain and stress of industrial life a s well as the men can,” ho said. While there was uo doubt that there were women who had slimmed themselves into tuberculosis, slimming, dancing and cocktails only affected such ft small proportion of women that they could not affect the figures of the country as a whole.
Dr W. Stanton Gilmour, medical superintendent of the City of Leeds Sanatorium, said that at about the marriage age the tuberculosis figures among young women tended to fall off, which would seem to show that the stress of being a housewife was not so adverse as that of being in industry.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1935, Page 6
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