CARE OF HEALTH

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2125, 17 May 1922, Page 4

CARE OF HEALTH

In an interesting address delivered to the General Council of the League of Red Cross Societies in Geneva, the Director-General, Sir Claude Hill, said the discoveries of science were far ahead of their application by the public, and, although it was a truism to say, "You cannot make people healthy by Act of Parliament, it was equally true that, up to the present time, little concerted endeavour had been directed toward persuading people to remain healthy of their own intelligent volition. It was demonstrable that humanity at large, owing to its mishandling of itself, had succeeded in rendering nugatory, or at all events had failed to take advantage of, the many discoveries of science placed at its disposal. The great truth which the. League of P.ed 'Cross Societies submitted for acceptation, was that the only way of remedying this failure was to show people how they could avoid the miseries of ill-health and suffering, and to persuade them, in their own persons, to lead lives which avoided the risks of ill-heabh, both mental and bodily, of which So per cent was avoidable. In one word, the process of prevention could only replace that of cure if there was the full co-operation of the public with Governmental measures and with the efforts of scientists and physicians."