“ESCAPED DOCTORS”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19478, 23 December 1925, Page 9

“ESCAPED DOCTORS”

EARL ASQUITH’S FORTUNE ' 4 ‘FIRST WEALTH IS HEALTH.” LONDON, Dec. 12. I The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, who lin the founder of the new Health I Society, .-peaking nt the Aldwych Club, , said there was no subject on which so j mimh nor.senso was written as health, j ‘‘l mice been on the most distant I bowing terms with doctors for 70 i years.” he said. 44 1 t is not because iof ar>v strict, self-imposed regimen. .’r.Mt, } " gr.nd fortune and the grace of I rwM’.'nce. that. I have escaped the well meant attentions. i <4 TL’ero is a disquieting economic loss ■ c, ' . i-;!) '•(.(-) n year due to preventable illness, particularly ignoruee nnd r.-ire’; ,: 's;;oss in diet. Adults i cn.f • while children have milk. ft. is useless to preach the laws of health while people i arc crowded into miserable, sordid and j unhealthy tenements. ’’ Th" new Society has adopted ‘he motto, 4 ‘Tne fir c t wealth is tbonbb..’’ Tt includes eminent scien fists, doctors and business men. and hnR Hunched a campaign with the aim •of di-M'minat ing knowledge of the ; simple laws of health anr preventing, | instead of curing, disease.