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Evening Star, Issue 22447, 18 September 1936, Page 9

HEALTH QUESTIONS PARAMOUNT. Confessing that health was a sulv ject on which he could speak for hours unless he were checked, Mr Bennett said the Plunket system of nursing had attained fame throughout the world, and in Canada the principles were followed under the style of the Canadian system. New Zealand had an advantage over Canada in the dissemination of useful information on health subjects, as the distances were much shorter. Canada possessed Departments of Health under the Federal Government in each province, and their efforts were co-ordinated for the purpose of making available to the people the latest and most useful knowledge concerning health, child life, and, the most important of all, the prevention of disease. _ “ Preventive medicine is the great thing of to-day,” added the visitor. “ The utilisation of scientific method! for ensuring freedom of disease which takes such great toll of the economic, life of a country is of vast importance. As Sir Josiah Stamp recently said, -disease is one of the greatest drains on the economic life of the countries of the world, and the extent to which it can be lessened will make a direct contribution to the economic progress of your country.” Mr Bennett leaves Dunedin to-mor-row on his return to Wellington, from where he will leave by the Wanganella for Australia. He is to visit South Africa and England before returning to Canada,