"ESCAPED" THE DOCTORS.
EARL ASQUITH'S FORTUNE. " FIRST WEALTH IS HEALTH." LONDON. Dec. 12. The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, who is the founder of the new Health Society, speaking at the Aldwvch Club, said there was no subject on which so much nonsense was written as health. " I have been on the 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 laws of health while people are 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 the aim ot disseminating knowledge of the simple laws of health and preventing instead of curing, disease.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19207, 22 December 1925, Page 11
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