LONGER LIFE
(Britisb Official Wireless.)
Effect of British Health Schemes
r- . r" . , , 3TJGBY, Oct. 23. Tbe acbievements of tbe public bealtb services during tbe past hundred years, ineluding tbe additioa of sixteen years to the average expectations of life, described by tbe chairman of the. Central Council for Health and Education, recalled in a speech that in 1837, tbe year of Queen Victoria's accession, tbe total sum voted for , tbe public bealtb services of the wbole country,. was £2000. Tbe first Medical Officer of Health was appointed at Liverpool ten years later. Since tben a vast, elaborate system of bealtb faeilities bas been built up providing for tbe safeguarding of bealtb and tbe treatment of diseases :in every stage of life. As .a result, tbe .general death rate bad declined by onejbalf and diseases sucb as cbolera and 'typhus, wiped out. • In 1875 tbe average expectation of life in England and "Wales was 41 years for males and 44 for females, To-day it is 57 and 61 respectively. Tbe infantile death rate bas fallen from 156 per tbousand live birtbs in 1900 to 59 last .year. As recently as 1912 tbe death rate from tuberculosis was 112 per hundred' tbousand, while to-day il is about sixty,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 27, 26 October 1937, Page 8
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