HEALTHWAY CODE.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 11, 6 October 1937, Page 4

HEALTHWAY CODE.

"If the Government considers it necessary to issue a Highway Code to protect road-users, how much greater is the need for a Healthway Code when one remembers the high incidence of preventable deaths and ill- health? "The subject matter of the code could include chapters on the paramount importance and value of good health, physical and mental fitness; rules of health, personal hygieqe and care of the body; diet and food values; simple health and fitness exercises; method of treating slight indisposition and accidents; action to he taken in suspected iufectious disease, tuberculosis or cancer; dangers arising from quack remedies and cures; avoidance of excess in exercise, work, eating and drinking; knowledge of the physical changes in late middleage and the limits Nature then imposes; functions of puhlic health authorities, insurance committees and voluntary health organisations : and, finally, steps to he taken in the event of enemy air, gas and bomb attacks. The copy should be prepared hy a joint committee comprising representatives of the Ministry of Health, Board of Education, local authorities, insurance committees, British Medical Association, nursing associations and voluntary health organisations. Ifc should he published under authority of Parliament and a copy issued free to every family in the land."- — F. T. Weal, Cheshire.