COST OF INEFFICIENCY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4929, 22 January 1926, Page 3

COST OF INEFFICIENCY.

£400,000,009 A YEAR. due to physical weakness. "it would i>e a moaest estimate to say that through inefficiency due to physical weakness' we as a nation are ■losing not less than £400,000,0'00 a year,” said Mr Philip Snowden, M.P., the British Chancellor 1 of the Exchequer in the late Socialist Government, speaking at a,/ luncheon given by the Aldwych Club in honour of the founders of the New Health Society of which Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, the surgeon, is the president. The -Earl of Oxford and As,quith, who was also a guest, said that .although the world, in these days, was so enmeshed in a network of societies, the New Health Society could make out a justification for its birth. The society proposed, he explained, to disseminate knowledge of the simple laws of health, the causes of disea|s'e, and the safeguards against it—first by lectures and literature, and secondly by co-operation with health and School authorities, welfare centres, and all forms of industrial associa,tions.

Lord Oxford continued: “So far as I am concerned,, doctors' and I have have been on the most distant bowing acquaintance for more.than 70 years. And if I have been more successful than most of my fellow-creatures in evading their well-meant ettention I put down my good fortune to the grace of Providence and, not ito the observance of any self-imposied regimen of life.”

Sir Charles Wakefield announced a personal donation to the funds of he society of £500..