THE HUMAN RACE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19844, 19 May 1927, Page 11

THE HUMAN RACE

RATE OF PROGRESS MUCH STILL TO BE ACCOMPLISHED. (A. & N.Z.) WASHINGTON, May 17. President Coolidge, addressing the annual session of the American Medical Association, declared that early in the Nineteenth Century there were only three medical schools and two general hospitals in the United States. He outlined the rapid progress since, particularly in the past half century, stressing the development of the Federal, State and municipal health organistions. The President said, in part: “The human race is by no means young. It has reached a state of maturity. It is the inheritor of very wide experience. It has located a great many fixed stars in the firmament and it is a truth, no doubt, that a multitude of others await revelation by more extended research. Somewhere in human nature there is still a structural weakness. We dp not do so well as wc know we should. Wc make many constitutions, enact many laws, laying out our course of action and providing the method of relationship one with another, which arc theoretically above criticism, but they do not come into full observance and effect.

“Society is still afflicted with crime, and among the nations there are still wars and rumours of wars. What part the physician will play in the further advancement of the well-being of the world is an interesting speculation. No one can doubt that if humanity could be brought to a state of physical well-being, many of our social problems would disappear. ’ ’