PUBLIC HEALTH
ENGLAND AND WALES HIGH STANDARD REPORTED LONDON, Sept. 18 Sir George Newman, chief medical officer to the Ministry of Health and the Board of Education, in a reporton the health of England and Wales for 1933, points out that there is no evidence of national deterioration. The general death-rate .has steadily declined for a generation. The evidence indicates, generally speaking, that a high standard of national health has been maintained in spite of economic and social difficulties. Unquestionably the .nutrition of the English people is bet'ier than at any period of which there is record. i 7 The number of deaths recorded as du«i to cancer in 1933 was 61,572. Of these deceased persons 28,837 were males and 32,735 females, giving a rate of 1526 1,000,000 persons living. This is a new high record.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21910, 20 September 1934, Page 12
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