“SUPPOSE,” SAYS A DOCTOR.

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 66285, 2 October 1925, Page 6

“SUPPOSE,” SAYS A DOCTOR.

“Suppose that, as a community, we determine to guard ourselves against these prolific lowly organisms which, taking advantage of air, food, water, and insect parasites live an unnatural life at our expense so that there was an end to the preventable fevers called enteric, typhus, Malta, and the rest; and end to the hydatid disease, bilharziosis, malaria and sleeping sickness; arr end to venereal disease, to leprosy and perhaps tuberculosis. Suppose, further, that building regulations abolished all the slums, and made our houses sun-traps or cool chambers according to the season, how much preventable disease and disorder would cease. To reach such a state we must learn to think so naturally, as members of a community, that we shall feel as least as much self-reproach in publishing rotten books or spreading infection in a school, in spoiling a landscape with refuse, or wasting water, in overworking servants or driving with an open exhaust, as we do now in eating peas with a knife or dropping aitches.”—Dr. Drury, at the South African Medical Congress.