PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
NEED FOR GREATER FREEDOM LONDON, Dec. 17. (Received Dec. 18, at 5 p.m.) " The legal fetters binding preventive medicine should be removed," declared Lord Dawson of Penn, Physician-in-ordinary to the King, in a speech at the Medico-Legal Society. " Preventive medicine is now expected to look generations ahead, and should be given greater free dom to work under more enlightened laws." Lord Dawson instanced sterilisation, which, he said, was unlawful but was necessary in the longrange planning of the nation's health. Such shackles were never intended to apply to preventive medicine.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23686, 19 December 1938, Page 9
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