IN BETTER HEALTH
PEOPLE IN BRITAIN EMPLOYMENT AND DIET (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 2. Sir Wilson Jameson, chief medical officer of the Ministry of Health, stated in London that Britain’s health still showed an improvement. This was due to a number of factors, he said. Everybody who was capable of being employed was employed and, although people might be uncomfortable in certain ways, they could afford the things that they might not have been able to afford before the war. Another factor was that they had a much simpler diet, He instanced the national loaf, more vegetables, and the fact that British people were no longer eating too much meat. Sir Wilson Jameson stated that the deaths from diphtheria in Germany last year totalled 236,000 —three times Germany’s average figure. He declared that the health of Britain had improved despite four years’ war. The infant mortality rate for the first quarter of 1943 was the lowest ever recorded for a first quarter of the year.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21112, 4 June 1943, Page 3
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