PREVENTIVE MEDICINE.
WHAT IS IT? “Preventive medicine means the organisation of human nature the cultivation and health of maternity, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adult life, old age, the postponement of mortality; and such cultivation means not only the 'central and local provision of medical and sanitary agencies for the fuller control of morbid process, by the development of the body and mind of man that they may reach, in each individual, the top of their capacity. Nothing is more certain than the fact that the physical advancement and health of mankind is dependent not upon a doctor’s stunt here or a sanitary institution there, but upon the whole social evolution of the people. Now these desired ends are not reached merely by announc-
ing them.; still less by leaving things to chance, drift or fate. They can in any case only be partly reached in each generation, and none of them can be reached at all without foresight, organisation and expenditure.” —Sir George Newman, Chief Health Officer, British Ministry of Health.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 269, 3 January 1929, Page 2
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170PREVENTIVE MEDICINE. Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 269, 3 January 1929, Page 2
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