QUACK MEDICINES

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 85, 16 September 1938, Page 1

QUACK MEDICINES

LORD HORDER’S ATTACK HUGE SUMS SPENT LONDON, July 27.—Lord Holder, physician-iu-ordinary to the- King, m a speech in the House of Lords, claimed that the manufacturers or quack medicines "bled the public to tne tune of £2-5,000,0X 1 o/ £30,000,UO'J a year.” He said that the amount thus spent was almost equal to that requireu to maintain all tlic voluntnrv and mumA • c eipal hospitals throughout the country. For every £IOO- the Government spent in making ;he people liealthcon.scions, the proprietors of quack medicines spent f £I,OOO iii .maxing them disease-conscious. Lord- Holder’s attack was directed against the methods of advertising quack remedies rather than against ilie remedies themselves. 'Sm-li advertisements.” lie declared, •‘are often cruelly misleading, if not actually j.ai.'.tulent.” V iscount. Gage, on behalf of the>Government, promised that, if .lei-ossary, a warning against the misuse of drugs generally would he incorporated iii the national fitness movement.