Health
Discussing public health. Mr Holland said it was absurd that a country like New Zealand should spend £1.793,000 in a year on medicine and drugs. The bill for sickness was L10.000,000 a year—£2oo.ooo per week. Too much was * being spent in the cure of sickness and not enough on its prevention. Tuberculosis was the largest cause of death among Maoris, and of Hie Dominion’s total hospital population one-fifth to one-sixth were tuberculosis sufferers. Over one-third were infectious cases, but there was proper institutional accommodation for only half of those.
In the examination of children, said Mr Holland. 40 per cent of European children, and 46 per cent of Maoris, showed some defects. This pointed to the need of an overhaul in health policy and administration.
(NATIONAL PARTY MANIFESTO —PAGE 7.)
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Northern Advocate, 28 October 1949, Page 2
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