GOING ON WELL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1943, Page 3

GOING ON WELL

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER TEMPERATURE NORMAL, AND MAKING SATISFACTORY PROGRESS. LONDON, December 20. Today’s bulletin relating to Mr Churchill’s health states that his temperature remains normal and that he is making satisfactory progress. Though Mr Churchill’s progress toward recovery is most heartening, his colleagues in the Government are anxious, a British Official Wireless message states, that he should take the longest possible convalescence. It is likely in these circumstances that he may travel to another country in the near future where the climate might be helpful and more bracing, says the diplomatic correspondent of the “Daily Mail.” Everything, of course, depends on Mr Churchill’s personal inclinations after his doctors have given their verdict.

A medical authority, commenting on the latest bulletin, said it was very satisfactory. Were there any cause for anxiety over the pulse irregularity, it would presumably have been mentioned. Pneumonia in a man of Mr Churchill’s age was bound to cause considerable anxiety and till it had completely cleared away there was potential danger’ all the time. A new name appeared among the signatories to the latest bulletin, that of Lieutenant-Colonel J. G. Scadding, aged 36, one of Britain’s foremost authorities on diseases of the chest and lungs. He is attached to the Middle East forces.

The “Daily Mail” in a leading article said: “The one touch needed to make the coming holidays the most cheerful of the war was the news of Mr Churchill’s improving health. It has come in the latest bulletin and the British and Allied peoples are thankful and relieved. Mr Churchill is not out of the wood yet, but medical opinion regards his progress so far as excellent and as promising rapid recovery. We all ask Mr Churchill now to restrain his appetite for work and not Ao be too hasty in resuming his giant burdens. His hardest tasks may be yet to come.”