HEALTH COMMISSION.
the birth rate AND THE BONOS. PRESERVATIVES, BEER AND BUTTER, (Electric Telegraph.—Copyright). I Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) MELBOURNE, This day. Dr. C'umpston, Federal Director of Health, giving evidence before the Health Commission, declared that the babv bonus as a factor in increasing the birth-rate airf lessening infant mortality had been without appreciable result. The money would be better spent in subsidising maternity expenditure, on which it would be less than half what was spent on the bonus.
Dr. Stanton, Lecturer in Pharmacy tol<\ the Commission that the digestions of consumers of beer aj)d butter were iu danger ot being impaired and tin* kidneys affected b\ the use 6f preservatives of boric and salicylic acids. —(A. & N.Z.)
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Waipawa Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue 65, 18 February 1925, Page 3
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