MAKING BRITONS FITTER
SUPPORT FOR HEALTH CAMPAIGN MINISTER’S EXPLANATION OF PROPOSALS British Official Wireless (Received October 6, 5.5 pm.) RUGBY, October 6. The national health campaign inaugurated by the Prime Minister (Mr Neville Chamberlain) last week has been carried itno the provinces by the Minister of Health, who addressed a great meeting at Liverpool. Sir Kingsley Wood emphasised that the campaign did not mean that British people were a decadent race — they were ot—but that health conditions could be vastly improved and tha coiisiderable sums of money and the great effort now expended would ’eld better results if the health services were more utilised. The Minister also Wd stress on the voluntary character of the movement, remarking that the suggestion that the British people were to be made fitter by law, was totally against national ideas and conceptions.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20852, 7 October 1937, Page 7
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138MAKING BRITONS FITTER Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20852, 7 October 1937, Page 7
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