HEALTH STATISTICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 June 1923, Page 3

HEALTH STATISTICS.

AI'STKAUAN AM) 5.7.. CAIII.r. ASSOCIATION. I LONDON. • lime 2T Mr Neville ('hnmherlaine in eummtl- I lee nil I lII' Health I )epn rl Hull ( volt* in ! the Utilise t.l ('omuitn;.-. siiicl t Imt I Ilf* | vital '•inti-tie, were eie ouraeinji. ini view of (lie net Mile's hard cmulitiolis j liMriinz t'ne past lour yeai-. lie death I rate hail steadily ih'diuo.l from lil'lecii j to twelve | e" thousand. an I I he infant j mortality fn in I !~> ] or thousand hint's j in 1917). i ll 77 |or ilioti-anil la-1 year. | Kesjiiraiery ili-ea-e-. he -anl "'ere (Sicily 111:»11*s -■ riouv i*!!cinv in i»ril:>il l . Tfio 1hll!i inurt;i!ity Irom tluv-r w«*is ;iltri»• i! 1; 1 1 >I<‘ • !*•* of pipnilat ion and the polluted atnm-j hens i I the ei t ies ami town-. lie lioj’dl to ini rotlitee leyisliition in the d Meet inn ol ilean-itm; the .nlttm- , soil ere. [‘ ot t u nit t ely 11 1 sen u h -is w; - . derlininp; in tin cliroiirayinu deirtee. hut i ealiver oeenpietl the fourth plnee in the | en uses of dent It. and i; we- steadily in-; creasine. I nlorlunalelv at present, "e | I;Hew litt'e i f ii - i IMS" or enre. ’I he punihcr 'I i aneer ih'itlis to the total J deaths in lines aped t lnriy-live or over | was (i.t) per lent, lor the poried tram | SSI to I SIM : H.ti per nut f i out I SIM to ]!t()0; ID.I' from Will I ’ 1919 ; 12. I from 1!H1 to 1921); and l-T.", in the vear 1921. Till'. SM.M.I.i’OX. It was Ins duty to sjoitk most plainly with reenrd to the stntdl-onx < -inbreaks. In 19IS there were only seven 1 eases. In 1922 there were upwai'.tsl of 97.",. T :is year there hail tdtcitdy heel’. 9-V> e; as. There was now the! l ilitv of a sel inns •Ppidellli a not mlv t!;«i:^i• ro 11 . sto the btidic health. j IniL likely to se: iof.sly injure tra 'e. j He desired to emphasise the point that j tlie surest protection was vaeriuatinn. | Twetitv years urn, lie said, three-lottrihs | of the children horn were vaccinated, j To-day the vaccinations only totalled | thi: ty-erpht per cent. co.Nsr.Mi’Tro.v. While the deaths from Oiherettli -is j totalled 2.(1'.:! p.er million in 1807. last j year’s (i*'urcs ware 8-V> per mill nut. | He had elfi'.etl to, make a full aml | svmpatheti • examination i f the Spall- i litlocr treatment as s on as he was sup- j ; with tlie necessary serum vac- j j cine. i Dr. Watts -aid that he was afraid j j Mr Chamberlain would net secure ser- j ! uni vaccine. Dr SptdiiingiT had work-i | ed lor twenty years on his re-can lie-, j i nt , 1 spent the whole ef In- pi irate fortune to eighty thiHt-aiHl -leriintr. and mile-- help- were speed.iy 1 orthcomi nu;. P)r. Spahlimrer's establishment must lie closed. If Mr Ch.-i rubel la in -pent a few thousands in r.s-istiiio Dr. Sprhlintter. instead of Imihiine: sanatoria, he would ereallv h.enetif siiil'ei insj; humanity. Sir \. Mond paid a similar tribute to Dr. Spaiilintrer. adding that his .- ia*ntiii<- research work promised extraordinary results.