PUBLIC HEALTH

Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1923, Page 3

PUBLIC HEALTH

THE ANNUAL REPORT

WELLINGTON. Aug

T|,.. ivi>i>ri of the Department ol 1'; 1 1 1 !i<• 11('illi!i "!i- presented to Parliament to-day. h states thnt the health of the people as shown hv the (kail! rale may l>e togarded a- satisfactory, especially when viewed in . relation' to certain of the more serious notifiable diseases. The standardise.! death-rate lias fallen from 10.0:1 l>er thousand to It'.T". These rate- are ilia rltedlv low. a - i- the infantile mortality rate ol -I Id) Pt-r thousand liirtiis. The denth-rate of infants in the lirsl month show-, little change, and is stdl a Hint for lor much eonIt is claimed lhat. the population „f New /calami has the trrcaiesl expectation of life ol any ol the lcaucountries of I lie world, and apart from social and factors u i- not nurea, -onal.de to assume lc..i this i, in i ome measure due '■> 'h ‘ many aelivities of this Department. ’pi,„re has been a decline in the picvalence of scarlet fever, diphtheria, radio,nv.-l, is. influenza. am! pneumonia. There has been a very slight toheredosis. In regard to tied Spaidimmr treatment, it >s -dated , i,e dilVicn.il v of obtaining an aftnua'ie supply or. h,d-d, any d ihe i.,.d,i:serum is mil known, and the medical profession of Nnv Zealand have had practically no opportunity of estimating its value. IK'g.ui.ia,- . , \hovo is u r,m»i mt urn from iv.'-I Incot." which says, inter alin..\V(. can endv trust that he will -uhthe independent investigation (l r this remedy, which would put him r j.,hl with i lie medical run Id ale pjvo him of hi- immediate ddheultu-. ('•mild some arrangement he made i» earrv out this investigation mil, - u-md coni reds at one or other ol ih. ..search institutions m Hus count!. iwo objects would he served ( c • , • , ,*•,is <i, I without risk ol inonoy c*oi»i<l *• , u i > foreleit and P>> the control v ml.l brine conviction to tho-e among ivhom U u carried out. We appeal to i.t stpaldiimer in the name ot humanity. less'than in tha.iof s, home. to consent to this course. Cancer still claims Us high ns,rare there having keen Kind V I- , rU e of S..VJ per 10.0(11) death-. o> ■' 1.0 villUS i ol itor>«m- iuii. * 1 v ,„. i h.e rate wa- 5.53. Atteuu.ou i, drawn to the very excellent -orK | carried out hy professor C . Horens, m Dunedin, and Dr k. will, regard to the prevention <0 goitre. Th - work of these officers show- '''' pbinlv that the greatest oneaurago-'-hoitld he given to re-eareu work. in reward to death- under almosthones ..i].,,. concern i- expre-sed that ehloro- | ,j„ being too cxien-tvely used, e-,.,,-iaUv so in regard to d.ental work. There is evidentlv still need mr fmro 1,, the pur* tlu'r of-onomv in u I'-nm'. cha-o of Imsoital supplies. The unnecessanlv high expense .s mainly duo to on reha ses iron, retail r- m small pm”" tities instead of in bulk m the "holesale market.