WAR LESSON
A PRECAUTION FOR HEALTH. It is the firm belief of, Dr. Pettit (a member of the National Council of Physical Welfare and Recreation) that the people’s health in the years to come will improve, if every child, on reaching the age of sixteen, is medically examined in the same way as men and women are before they can be passed into the Armed Forces. This examination includes an X-ray photograph of the chest which in some cases has revealed the beginning of tubercular trouble in men who did not suspect that they had it. By this procedure it is possible to detect the insidious onset of this disease a year before symptoms would be noticed in the ordinary course of life. Thus early curative treatment could be undertaken with a surety of success, to the advantage of the community (which is heavily burdened with the cost of hospitals and sanatoria). It is a common-sense manner of taking advantage of the methods which the war has brought in.
Dr. Pettit advocates the use of some of the Social Security Funds for the promotion of physical welfare and recreation for young folk in provision for three months in camp, at an age of sixteen, to enable boys and girls to be braced up for the battle of life.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 April 1943, Page 4
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218WAR LESSON Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 April 1943, Page 4
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