HEALTH INSURANCE
GREAT SUCCESS IN BRITAIN. REPORT OF THE MINISTRY. (British Official Wireless.) Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, Sept. X The Ministry of Health gives an arresting survey of the chief developments during the 25 years' of the King’s o reign in the Ministry’s main services. Under the national health and pensions insurance schemes, “one of the most memorable developments of public health,” 16,450,000 persons are insured. So soundly has the scheipe proved to have been constructed that during the life of the scheme it has been found practicable to expend a total sum of over £53,000,000 in additional benefits. Infant mortality in the first year per 1000 live births fell from 105 in 1910 to 64 in 1933.
In regard to housing, the report states that some 15,300,000- acres, or more than two-fifths of England and Wales, were now subject to some form of town-plan-ning control.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 September 1935, Page 5
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