PUBLIC HEALTH
EFFECT ON WORLD TRADE United Press Association—By Electric Tel egraph—Copyright GENEVA, February 10. "Restore public health, and you will restore world trade,” said Lord Astor, at the opening of the session of Mr Bruce’s Nutrition Committee. Continued and tactful skill would be required to persuade people that specific diseases can be avoided by improved dietary—that physique can be improved, robustness replace weakness, and contentment, and well-being replace disharmony and discontentment. If this were achieved the whole economic policy of certain nations may be affected, and the whole structure of agriculture influenced. There would be a marked increase in the demand for perishable products, such as milk and vegetables, and this might result in farmers becoming less insistent on State help for sugar and wheat crops, leading gradually to an increase in the international exchange of goods, and thus to the restoration of world trade. It has been decided at present to confine the nutrition inquiry to Western countries.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20340, 12 February 1936, Page 9
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