BRITISH PEOPLE
MINISTER’S STATEMENT
AVERAGE LIFE EXTENDED
LONDON, October 7
Sir Kingsley Wood, the Minister. of Health, (in a message in. ‘connection with Health Week, said, “We have rao reason to be dissatisfied with the .progress we are making in the improvement of the nation’s health.
“A child born to-day can look forward to fifteen more years of life than a child born sixty years ago. The number of children who die in infancy is, for every 1000 births, less than) one-half ifjhe number who died in 1908. Wo live longer. Our lives are healthier.
"When there are no more slums —• and their abolition is already in sight —one of the most terrible causes of disease and misery will have ceased to exist.
"Wo do not want a nation of people who are for ever thinki'njg about their health, always fancying thaitl they have some 'illness,” he said. "It is much more important to know how to preserve health than to hear about the treatment of disease."
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 272, 22 November 1935, Page 5
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