FELL DISEASES
SLUM PROPAGATION AREAS.
CLEARANCE EXPENDITURE
A BIG POSSIBILITY,
(Received 9.15 a.in.)
LONDON, July 25.
Dr. Charles Childe, in his presidential address before the Congress of the British Medical Association at Portsmouth, said that the five nrost formidable endemic scourges to-day <are cancer, tuberculosis, rickcts, venereal d'is-' cose and alcoholism. He emphasised the evil effects' of slum conditions. Omitting cancer, of which little is known, tuberculosis and rickets' accounted for most of the cripples. Cancer, tuberculosis, venereal disease and alcoholism accounted for most of the deaths, and venereal disease find alcoholism for most of the misery and moral degradation of our race.
Taking the cost of the country's sickness and disablement ftt £1«J>0,000,* 000 annually the country could afford to spend £50,000,000 annually, or £1,000,000,000 capitalised at live per cent., in clearing slum oreas. —A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 26 July 1923, Page 5
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