MEDICAL CONGRESS.
THE PUBLIC HEALTH. SOME REMARKABLE FIGURES. I. By Elkci it re Telkgrai'H—Cor v kiuht] I United Pukss Association. 1 (Received 11.50 a.m.) London, August 12. The .Medical Congress has closed. The next meeting will be held at Munich in 1917. Mr John Hums, M.P., delivered an address on the relationship of medicine to public health, and pointed out that there were 772,811 fewer deaths in England and Wales from 1909 to 1911 than, there would have boon if the 1871-to-1881 death rate had been maintained. The saving of life from special diseases during the same period amounted to 367,000, and the saving of life during the last 32 years was nearly four millions. Mr Burns, during his speec'h, was subjected to much suffragette interruption.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 84, 13 August 1913, Page 6
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126MEDICAL CONGRESS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 84, 13 August 1913, Page 6
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