PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
NEED OF WIDER SCOPE. Preventive medicine had far more victories to its credit than had the curative side of the profession, said Dr Robert Hutchison, president of the Royal College of Physicians, in a recent address. The curative side had scored lately over diabetes and perInicious anaemia, and he was glad to think that recent developments of cheirotherapy offered a chance of greater victories in the future, but most of the improvement in the deathrate was due to preventive medicine. He believed thpre was not much more that could be done by preventive medicine on its present lines. There was an increasing amount of morbidity. Much of it was due to minor forms of organic disease, but a large part of it was not functional in origin. Preventive medicine in the future would have to widen its scope and must take in not only the physical but the mental and moral environment of man.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1939, Page 9
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