KEEPING WELL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5368, 24 December 1928, Page 2

KEEPING WELL.

DON’T THINK ABOUT IT. A DOCTOR’S ADVICE.

“I should like to emphasise,” said Dr. F. V. Bevan BFpwn, in the course of his Health Week addre's?, to the women workers at Aulsebrook and Co.’s factory at Christchurch, “that -the wisest thing for all to do is not to think about your health at all. It is not natural nor necessary, provided you observe ordinary, common-sense principles.” One of the favourite topics of conversation "over .the teacups,” at the pictures, or on tramcars is all about sickness, the lecturer continued. How Mrs So-and-sp had! undergone a big operation and ivhat she thought of it and what others thought of it. Some people .took a pride in being ill, and they had had: something cut out. (Laughter.) Rathe? than being proud of bepng ill, or of having had an operation, or of having taken so many pills, or so much medicin|e, they should be ashamed of it. They should take pride in being well, for when one was ill one was a clog in the wheels of society. They should realise that illness was not a thing to be proud of, and they should boa's;t about hpw well they were. Referring to what he described as “propagapda about illness,” Dr. Bevan Brown said that some people believed in bringing undter the notice of others pamphlets about cancer or consumption. While a certain amount of knowledge about these; and other diseases was necessary, the trouble about such propaganda was that it drew people’s attention to illness, and for one person who was in daniger of getting consumption or cancer there would be, a hundred made miserable because they constantly worried themselves over ’’some little trivial thing that they imagineid was a sign of some dreadful disease. Rather than allow themselves to be constantly worried they should go off .and! see a doctor and have their doubts settled one way or another.

Dr. Bevan; Brown touched on other aspects of the question of how ttf keep well, and at the conclusion of his remarks he was accorded a vote of thanks by acclamation.