WAR MYSTERY
WHY IS BRITAIN HEALTHIER ? The United States ore sending to Britain a committee of American medical men to tr> r and find out why the people have come through the -winter's "blitz" ■with better health than in the years of peace. Madical men generally 1 are completely baffled by, the nation's fitness. They feared that, after nights of crowding in air-raid shelters and exposure to all weathers on A.R-P. and fire-watching, epidemics, would sweep the country like a prairie fire. In fact, there have been fewer cases of scarlet fever, diphtheria, pneumonia and typhoid fever, and only half the number of deaths! from influenza. Whooping cough and meningitis have alone been rather more prevalent than usual. Britain's own doctors offer various explanations of the mystery among them the dispersal of densely populated areas, the improved system of health supervision, the spread o>f education in preventive measures fewer peoplei at "the pictures" and in other public places. All, however, are agreed that the busy, hazardous life led by 45,000,000 people leaves them neither the time nor the inclination ±o brood over minor ailments. The war has taken them "out of themselves."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 123, 30 June 1941, Page 6
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192WAR MYSTERY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 123, 30 June 1941, Page 6
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