MOTORS AND HEALTH
STRIKING EX AMPLE IN BRITAIN. Much is heard from time to time of statistics relative to accidents and fatalities resulting from the use of the world's 35,000,000 motor vehicles, but the other side of the picture is seldom referred to. An English medico, Dr. Dunstan Brewer, recently uncovered a page of history that is never. touehed upon in these days of motors. He pointed out that fatalities in Britain from an infantile ailment, spread by flies bred in stahles, have dropp'ed from 46,212 in 1911 to 2510 in 1931. These are astonishing flgures, and indicate that the 2,000,000 motor vehicles on the roads of Britain are not the lethal instrument that our old friend the horse was. The increase in Britain's motor fatalities from the 1911 figures of 2987 to 5855 in 1931, in the light of the medico's statistics, points to the fect that while the motor vehicle in Britain has much to answer for, there is a very handsome credit due to the automobile, for the huge saving of infantile lifq in the Old Countfv
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/RMPOST19321108.2.3.3
Bibliographic details
Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 374, 8 November 1932, Page 2
Word Count
180MOTORS AND HEALTH Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 374, 8 November 1932, Page 2
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Rotorua Morning Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in