FIVE GREAT SCOURGES.
BRITAIN'S ILLS DIAGNOSED. .V : •' ' V ;": r y EVIL EFFECTS OF SLUM LIFE'. Australian find N.Z. CsW« Association. CRccd. 8.30 p'.tn.) LONDON. July 24. Dr. Charles Cliilde, in his presidential address to the congress of the British Medical Association at Portsmouth, said that the five, most formidable endemic scourges to-day were cancer, tuberculosis, rickets, venereal disease and alcoholism. He emphasised the evil effects of slum conditions in the case of four, omitting cancer, of which little was known. Tuberculosis arid rickets, he said, accounted for most of the nation's cripples; cancer, tuberculosis, venereal disease and alcoholism accounted for most . deaths; and venereal disease and; alcoholism accounted for most of the misery : and moral degradation of the race. Taking the cost of the country's sickness and disablement at £150,000,000 a year, the country could afford to spend £50,000,000 annually, or £1,000,000,000 capitalised at 5 per cent., in clearing the slum areas., .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18461, 26 July 1923, Page 7
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