“ESCAPED” THE DOCTORS.
EARL ASQUITH’S FORTUNE,
“FIRST WEALTH IS HEALTH.”
LONDON, Dec. 12. The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, who is tho founder of the new Health Society, speaking at the Aldwych Club, said there was no subject on whicfi so much nonsense was written as health. “I havo beep on tho most distant bowing terms with doctors for 70 years.” he said. “It is not because of any strict, self-imposed regimen, but by good fortune and the grace of Providence, that I have escaped the doctors’ well-meant attentions.
“There is a disquieting economic loss of probably £400,000,000 a year due to preventable illness, particularly ignorance and carelessness in diet. Adults eat meat excessively, while children have insufficient milk. It is useless to preach the law of health while people aro crowded into miserable, sordid and unhealthy tenements.”
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 tho aim of disseminating knowledge of the simple laws of health and preventing instead of curing, disease.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 24, 28 December 1925, Page 2
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