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DOCTORS DIFFER AGAIN
LONDON, May 2.
"It has been shown that women are less liable to serious disease, that they live longer, and meet with fewer accidents than men,” said l)r. Gordon, a pathological expert, addressing the Medical Legal Society., “But,” lie added, “the attitude of the insurance companies was a relio of the days when the average girl lay on a couch, eating chocolates and reading novelette. Nowadays, she. led a more active and healthier life than her brothers. ” •
Other doctors dissented from this view, believing that girls went through more sickness though they lived longer. “The general practitioner would he in the workhouse without women patients,” said one.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16339, 13 May 1927, Page 9
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