WHITE MAN’S SCOURGE
RHEUMATISM—NOT T.B. ONE IN EVERY SIX SUFFERS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON, September 20. The delegates to the National Conference of Friendly Societies at Brighton declared that rheumatism, not tuberculosis, is the white man’s scourge, that it causes a loss to British industry of three million working weeks annually, and is wrecking the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who cannot afford special treatment The secretary declared that one out of every six of the population was affected by rheumatism. The National Insurance Act should be amended to inqjude the most modern treatment for this scourge among the masses.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12249, 22 September 1925, Page 8
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104WHITE MAN’S SCOURGE New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12249, 22 September 1925, Page 8
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