Balance Of Age
1 The proporuon oi oia peopie uu young is greater in New Zealand than any Where ejse. More than one • in bight of New Zealand's populatAon are 60 years of age or older, and probabjy one in every ■five erectors is 60 or more. These i figures are cite'S as the basis of a Ipaper on o}d people In New Zeajfand, their medical .and social rerquirements and their part in the struc'ture of New Zealand society, Wrifcten by Mr, Harol'd Palmer, of the Department of Psychiatry, Dunedin Hospital and vOtago Medical School, and . published in the iNew Zealand Medical tTournal.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 November 1948, Page 4
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103Balance Of Age Chronicle (Levin), 10 November 1948, Page 4
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