HEALTH WEEK IN SYDNEY.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18220, 3 November 1924, Page 15

HEALTH WEEK IN SYDNEY.

♦ —— (mom oca ors combskisdest.) SIDNEY, October 23. Syclney has just had its annual Health Week, which, in the battle which is being constantly waged by the authorities against the hosts of bad habits, stupidity, ,and ignorance, is really intended to convince the public that every week throughout the year should bo health week if they wish to entrench themselves strongly against illness and disease, and their fatal consequences very often. The heart of the city, the factories, the- offices, the highways and the by-ways have been invaded by speakers in their emphasis of the point that health is wealth, economically- and nationally, and is the surest road to happiness, individually. The City Health Officer (Dr. Purely), for instance, invading the very homo of gastronomic comfort, the Commercial Travellers' Club, warned the robust travellers- that many men dug their own graves with their knives and forks simply because they ate more than they should. He set before them as an exof an absolutely virile man, Genoral Birdwood, who, lie said, never ate any lunch, and who ascribed his virility to the fact that, ho did not overcat. Thus Dr. Purdy warns, the sybar-"' ites in the community that they are digging their own graves. Dr. Harvey Sutton, , another prominent Sydney medical man, speaks of diet aTTd cxer.cisoas the important factors in keeping fit. Dancing, he says, is an exercise which should-be indulged in more by older people. What a theme this is. incidentally, for the imaginative artistgiddy octogenarians, flighty nonagenarians indulging in a whirling riot of foxtrots to the entrancing murmur of music, of melodies of passion and romance.