ELIMINATING DISEASE
PUBLIC HEALTH SCHOOL TUBERCULOSIS BUREAU (United. P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyrights Reed. 12.5 p.m. SYDNEY, To-day. Professor Welsh, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Sydney University, giving evidence before the Federal Public W T orks Committee in regard to the proposed establishment of a Federal School of Public Health in the University, said that by the expenditure of a few million pounds upon an intensive campaign in popularising tlie necessary means of prevention, nearly all infectious diseases could be eliminated within a generation. A message from Melbourne says that the Health Council has succeeded in reaching a basis of common action for the treatment of infectious diseases. Proposals for the establishment of a tuberculosis bureau, on the lines of existing venereal disease clinics, have been formulated. It was resolved also to hold an inquiry throughout Australia into mental deficiency.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 332, 18 April 1928, Page 9
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