HEALTH LORE FOR THE PEOPLE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 164, 1 October 1927, Page 12

HEALTH LORE FOR THE PEOPLE

DOCTORS, PRESS AND PUBLIC In his presidential address before the British Medical Association at Edinburgh. Sir Robert Philip, who is the honorary physician to the King in Scotland, gave his unstinted support to the policy of educating the public by means of the Press in matters of health. This is the policy steadily advocated by “The Daily Mail,” says that: newspaper, which for nine months past has been collaborating with Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, and the New Health Society In giving to the public the best possible advice on how to keep well by sensible feeding and hygienic habits of life. Not for years has there been a more popular feature of this newspaper than the series of short articles in which eminent specialists have dealt in simple and straight-for-ward language with the vital questions of personal health and dietetics. The aim of modern medicine is rather to maintain people in good health than to cure them when they are ill. Certain sensible and courageous doctors, who realise that what the nation needs is sound education in the rules of health, have lately taken up the task of imparting instruction of this kind to the general public. Unfortunately they have had to face a great deal of professional prejudice. But now that approval cf their policy has been warmly expressed by so distinguished a physician as Sir Robert Philip, who urges that “medicine must court the alliance of the Press/’ it is to be hoped that their example will find increasing support and imitation.