BRITAIN’S HEALTH
I MOST IN II [STORY LONDON. Sept. 28. Britain was healthier last year than at any time in history, despite prolonged unemployment. Ibis tint, emerged Irotn the annual report of Sir George Newman. Chief Medical Officer ol tile Ministry of Health. Significantly, Sir, George'declared that the principal cause of the recent improvement in national health was the apparent fact that “the English people are learning more of the art of living.” While there was no general increase in sickness from unemployment, Si r George found that the death rate was abnormally high among residents of the depression areas.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18236, 3 November 1933, Page 11
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