GREAT ECONOMIC LOSS
SICKNESS IN AUSTRALIA
The ec'/onomi© 'to Australia) through sickness is estimated, at £65 000,000 a year, and to New South Wales, between £30 000,000 and £40,000 000 a year, the Minister for Health, Mr J. Kelly, stated in Sydney. Britain, he .said, lost about £300.,000 000> a year through sickness In a surve.y of 283 establishments in the metal trades iy New South Wa'cs, said Mr Kelly, a loss of 1.060,000 hours through sickness not including any .sickness that lasted more than four days, was revealed. lit was time, he added, that the impression that Australia led the world in health and other matters received a severe jolt because of the complacency to which it g'ave rise. New South Wales, it was estimated spent £10,000.000 a year on patent medicines, some of them not worth a snap of the finger.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 29, 30 November 1943, Page 5
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143GREAT ECONOMIC LOSS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 29, 30 November 1943, Page 5
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