FOOD RESTRICTIONS
HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE NOT SUFFERING. London, March 22. Lord Rhondda, Food Controller, ad« dressing the Insurance Faculty, described a Ministry of Health as an urgent war necessity. A Hill creating i such a Ministry was to be introduced after the recess. The Ministry of Health was more important than the Naval Ministry and Departments. Tho people had submitted to the food restrictions in a marvellous manner. Their health had not suffered; it was better than before the war. The restrictions had reduced the work of the doctors owing to the decrease in gout and rheumatism. The death-rate was 13.6 per thousand in 1913, and only, 12.2 in 1917.—Au5.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 159, 25 March 1918, Page 4
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113FOOD RESTRICTIONS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 159, 25 March 1918, Page 4
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