DEPRESSION AND WORRY
INCREASE IN TUBERCULOSIS OBSERVATION IN AUSTRALIA Malnutrition and worry, brought on by the depression, have caused an increase in the number of tuberculosis eases, according to a statement made by the country commissioner of the Red Cross Society, Mr C. W. Graham, in an address at Goulburn, New South Wales. Mr Graham recalled the word of the late Sir Neville Howsc, who had forecast that, when the majority of surviving members of the Australian Imperial Force reached the age of 40, the society would have fl greater demand on its services than ever before. His words had unfortunately come true, and the society had actually many more thousands of sick and disabled returned soldiers to care for now than at any time previously. The number being treated had grown from 28,436 in 1929 to 34,852 in 1931. '
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 121, 17 May 1932, Page 7
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