LIVING STANDARDS
NEW ZEALAND A LEADER REPORT TO THE LEAGUE LONDON, August 22 New Zealand, Australia and tlie Netherlands have the most satisfactory vital statistics. That is shown in a League of Nations report on living standards, l\v Professor N. F. Hall, who visited Australia last year. It is the outcome of work which was initiated by the Australian delegation to the League and resulted in the formation of nutrition councils by 20 nations.
Australia urged a study of the methods of improving living standards, and Professor Hall prepared a report, tracing the effect of the living standard on death rates.
Better living standards, it says, would bring about a more stable economic system throughout the world, would increase the consumption of primary products and clothing, would reverse the trade recession and improve national security. It mentions that in Britain's prosperous districts tho death rate is 30 per cent lower than the average for all Britain, and in the poorer districts is 40 per cent higher than the average.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23131, 1 September 1938, Page 13
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