LESS DISEASE
IN BRITAIN UNDER STRESS OF WAR RISE IN BIRTH RATE./ HEALTH MINISTER’S REVIEW. , (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) RUGBY, June 30. The Minister of Health, Mr Ernest Brown, said in the House of Commons that the birth rate, which had fallen from 20.9 in 1916, to 14.2 in 1941, had risen in the first quarter of 1942 to 15.5 The rate of infectious diseases since the war was actually below the usual. Pneumonia, one of the most dangerous diseases in war or peace, had been subjected to new methods of treatment and he hoped there would be a continued improvement. At the beginning of the war it was feared that the incidence of diseases would increase, owing to the strain of war conditions, but the reverse had proved to be the case. During two and a half years of war, the number of cases of mental disease had fallen from 30,000 to 26,000.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1942, Page 2
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