How Rheumatism Takes Toll
Rheumatism heads the list of industrial diseases as causing the greatest loss in efficiency and time among workers, and is responsible for an enormous drain on industry—and consequently upon insurance funds, writes Mr. Oscar Parkes, in his book, “Our Rheumatism.” But, as it is not a * ‘fatal 0 disease like cancer or tuberculosis, it lacks that “publicity value’ ’ which might make it the subject of national campaigns and other financial drives wherewith funds may be collected for the establishment of treatment clinics and endowment of research work as to the cause of its various manifestations.
Nevertheless, it is responsible for 25,000 deaths annually in England and Wales, through the heart disease which it brings about, and which represents some 40 per cent, of the deaths from this cause. There would seem to be ample grounds for regarding rheumatism as a Public Enemy No. 1 against which our biggest battalions should be mustered in order to provide for investigation and relief.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 23, 28 January 1937, Page 6
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