PUBLIC HEALTH
“The boy born in London to-day can expect to live 18 years longer than his grandfather born in 1871; the girl 19 years longer,” said Mr H. Morrison, M . P., leader of the London County Council, in a recent broadcast talk. “In 1900 the .odds against a London baby dying within its first year were still as short as six to one. Today they have lengthened to over 15 to 1. Infectious diseases scourged urban populations 50 years ago. Today they have either been controlled to vanishing point, as in the case of typhoid and smallpox, or short, like scarlet fever, of many of their former terrors. To get diphtheria 50 years ago was to stand a mere four-to-one chance of recovery; to-day barely one case in 30 succumbs. His schools have granted the Londoner a glimpse of a higher life. The doctors have given him longer to achieve it.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2670, 15 September 1937, Page 6
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