OVERHAULING THE HUMAN MACHINE.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1928, Page 3

OVERHAULING THE HUMAN MACHINE.

“Many of those who spend time in health propaganda hold the view that lieriodic physical examination should he the rule insteadof the exception.” writes Sir Bruce Bruce-Porter in the Daily. News.” “ A few medical men take the opposite view, and declare such, examinations to he unnecessary, nul when asked their reasons always ’’aji hack on the same answer; —i.e.. it will tend to .make people introspective

ml neurasthenic though on what rounds 1 know not. The twenty veers’ xpectation of life at birth which have been added on during the last century wo due, in the main, to reduction of mortality in children under the age of vo j ears. The gain in expectation at- " Tty years during the same period is so ‘•■mall as to he almost negligible. The oily wav in which we can increase this

"• portal ion is. by facing facts and treating the human machine with Hie same consideration we now extend to i valuable motor-car. The objection rhat jicriodic examinations will make a man or woman neurasthenic is so futile >s to he an actual insult to the intelligence of ordinary folk.”