STRAIN OF WAR WORK
EFFECT OF LONG HOURS
(Special) DUNEDIN, February 23. Is the strain of war work beginning to tell on workers? was a question put to the Hon. A. H. Nordmeyer, Minister of Health, this morning. The general opinion of those who were competent to express an opinion, said the Minister, was that fatigue was beginning to make itself shown. The Minister added that this was, however, to be expected in view of the long hours many people were working and the fact that a numbe? of them, used to an outdoor life, were now employed indoors. One factor which was causing the Minister concern was a report of school medical officers and nurses that there had been evidence for some time of deterioration in the standard of children’s health. The number of substandard children had increased appreciably in past years, he said. No definite opinion could be expressed except to say that in many cases deterioration had obviously been caused through lack of rest and sleep.
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Southland Times, Issue 24986, 24 February 1943, Page 3
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