MORE HEALTHY WORLD
STRIKING ADVANCE MADE EXPECTATION OF LIFE LONDON, Dec. 12 Dr. Alfred Cox, general secretary of the British Health Resorts Association, and for 20 years medical secretary of the British Medical Association, in an address to the Institute of Hygiene, foreshadowed a happier because of a healthier world. The speaker said that doctors in future will teach what normal health is and how it may be attained. In London, in the 17th and 18th centuries, 50* per cent of the populace died annually, but now only 12 per cent died. Whereas a baby in 18-38 was expected to reach the age of 41, the expectation now was 60 years. The United States to-day spent £12,000,000 on health services, but £21,500,000 on beauty preparations. Probably the British expenditure was similar yet illness cost Britain £300,000,000 annually.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21983, 14 December 1934, Page 13
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