An announcement from THE NEW ZEAEAND DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH 9.62 Taef2 24,065 000 New Zealanders ordered 10,750,000 prescriptions in the THE PRESCRIPTLOn year ended March 3 Ist, 1956. No 10.,750.000 The cost to the country #?Jiao $vo] 7cte 0# mbieshseon was {4,064,000 And that 71/6 so4y a/pr8 mfuis was not all of it. These figures relate only to free pharmaceutical benefits In addition an unknown sum was spent on patent and proprietary medicines. OUR DRUG BILL MUST BE CUT K try these prescriptions 1 R R R EXERCISE A PASTEURISED And BALANCED MILk REGULAR HOURS DIET (instead of (instead of (instead of sleeping pills) vitamin pills) calcium tablets) R R R FRESH AIR, IMMUNISATION REGULAR SUNSHINE AND HABITS BODILY CLEANLINESS (instead of diphtheria, tetanus, (instead of whooping cough (instead of over-exertion and and tuberculosis) purgatives) over-indulgence)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 894, 21 September 1956, Page 24
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136Page 24 Advertisement 1 New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 894, 21 September 1956, Page 24
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