THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
A Dk.uh.y Eon. “Pneumonia is the most deadly of all acute diseases; it is the type of those diseases of the respiratory organs which are the great curse of this ountry now that improved primary sanitation has brought the water-borne diseases under control. It kills, in England anil Wales, between thirty and forty thousand persons every .ear —much the same number as that for which pulmonary tuberculosis is responsible. That takes years to ivill. mieumonia ten (lays or so. Tt kills at all ages, but is the enemy of the very young and the old ; unless, indeed, we take the view of Sir William Os'er that it is the old man’s friend. When a man is really tiled of life, he may indeed do worse than make an on!, swiftlv and with little pain, bv meins of this disease.”—“Lons,” in Iho “New Statesman.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1925, Page 2
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147THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1925, Page 2
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