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By BRETT OLIVER
44
Swillers
HAVING HEARD the experts at an inter- national conference at Oxford on the stability of the family, the author of this article gives his own ideas on reasons.
WHY PEOPLE MARRY
By HARRY THOMPSON
Oxford: make a so-called romantic
HY do people marry? marriage because you are feal- int blue without your sweetio
If, formerly. some- ple?" ono had addressed
this question to me I might
Priment words, all of uiem,
furrowed brow.
have been excused from which leave the layman with a taking the obvious way out studiously avoiding I left the experts after hear- the eye of the questioner. Professor. Waterink, from
Helland, talking about and answering awkwardly: supremely delicate relationship "Well, I don't know: Boy between parents and children, meets-girl-und-all that, and of how possessiveness and
tho
neglect both being unhappiness, Because let's face It the
What frightening responsib!- question and its supplementary lity, for instance, he seems to Where stands marriage today?'
place upon young parents when of those awful he says: "Generally speaking, examples abstractions which folk in-
arc
tomorrow's
variably discard in favour of the future inner attitude of the child Is determined before it the weather OT chances of a revival in the for- reaches its sixth year." lunes of their favourite football
tebin.,
Buit
when an International
conference opens with Just All this, and 0 subsequent these questions uppermost in discussion on maladjusted child- *. mind, and when the atmosphere ren, seem to me to need somo is preacminantly French, as it translation, or else we imagine, was at this conference, one ex- like a hypochondriae reading a pects no such inhibitions.
medical dictionary, that every- thing refers to us.
There were none.
Lord Pakenham,
Cripps, in his 1940 Budget, ad- Socialist
father of four boys and four corner in the suburb of any
vocated a ceiling ture, and one
The views of the experts, who ex- rightly see their problems in Minister, and the larger way, need focusing on a on expendi-girls, sees the last war, oddly city, a back street of any town, of £400 million enough, as #strengthener of If they are to begin to have was, in fact, Imposed in the family life, and is happy in reality for ourselves. 1950 Budget of Mr Hugh Galt- the knowledge that his eight children, who would have been a bad joke in 1930. ure now a Since then, actual expenditure very good joke Indeed. on the health service has been kept below the celling-though
skell.
09 the £40 million promised
N June 3 last,, two days after Britons began paying a nominal shilling charge for medicine pre- scribed under the National Health Service, London newspaper columnist com- posted a neat piece of verse many stocked up on medicine appliances ordered by the family back pay to doctors under a new which practically summed at the last minute. July doctor on a prescription form and salary revision will, with other
supplied by a chemist, or sup- Increased
cosis, take the bill. back at the piled by a doctor who does his up the psychology of the found them
doctors' rooms again.
own dispensing. The only ex- next year to more than £400 this indicated that the levy. It said:
ception to the shilling rule is in However, even a reduc in that case the patient pays be- the prescribing of elastic hosiery;
The present Government has tion of five percent would tween Ave and ten shillings for sought to recoup some of the outlay by introducing charges save 11 million prescriptions each article.
for both dental treatment and annually. The Ministry of
Dr David R. Mace, formerly supply of spectacles, besides the general secretary of the Marri- Health expects the saving to
levy on prescriptions. Since thenge Güfttance Council und now National Health be far more, though they
tealth Service started Professor of Human Relations admit it is still too early for accurate predictions.
Tell me not, in mournful.
numbers,
·Of fancied ills you can't
endure;
The chemist's 'bobis just
the job.
To prove, my friends, a
sovereign cure.
The
Refunds
million.
The applause which
at least agruo,
greeing exverts
What about this for another
"angle"-to put it vulgarly on matrimony?
J
All right, then, why do we marry? Might I, with no other qualification than that I have Indeed married and that I have listened to the experts, suggeat these reasons.
We marry for the sparic of lave. We see the spark heighten und flame and then settle to a constant glow.
con-
We have children to summate that love and because it is our destiny. And then, as the experts acknowledge and every married... couple knows, the testing time arrives.
of July 5, 1948, the actual cost at an American university, to the Exchequer has risen asked: "Is it not just as mis- from £305,300,000, in the first guided to marry for the utili
What do we need then? and children alone as 11 is to Courage and tolerance, good temper, and the spirit of give-
It has been established pays the shilling to the chemist full year, to £358,202,000, the terian motive of home comforts
HOW TO WOO THE RUSSIANS
patient who
gets prescription form from a doctor
How true. And how right
who makes up the order. In estimate for 1952-3. of the British Government that more prescriptions are country areas where doctors do,
entered on each to make the nation's medi- being
their own dispensing, the money cine swillers think twice chargeable prescription form is paid to the doctor instead. And WORLD FAMOUS FOR QUALITY before running off for a now than before the levy in some remote country districts, prescription at the slightest was introduced. The shilling there are special local arrange- sniffle, the smallest ache. charge is made for each meats under which the payment is made to the chemist or doctor prescription form, irrespec- with
shilling stamp. That was happening. Only- tive of-the-number of items.
Some people do not have to too clearly. In just four prescribed on it. It is there.
free medicine, fore profitable to the patient pay the shilling se all. People years of
getting national assistance are shilling when prescription figures jumped to have as many items on refunded their "from 170 million to a stag- one form as he can persuade next they drew their assistance money, having been given a gering 228 million. Every the doctor to prescribe.
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Britain was drinking down
an average of four and u half bottles of cure-all an- nually.
There's Concern
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New York. who raiced his head. We must
and aword.
and-take.
What сап
we do without? Meanness, disloyalty and always wanting our own way.
When we get down to it, the thoughts of the professors from Rome, the...doctors from Paris- and Bordeaux, and the speielo- rists from Berne and Amster. dam can fairly be crystallised Into caslly-digested syllables.
"Live and
Be lot live. generous. Be kind. Don't be bossy,"
"In Russla there are kindly, dréent people. If we can get ati It any are absent, disaster, them, they will be glad to know separation, divorce and misery
may threaten. the truth about the West."
ARRIVAL in the top job not let anybody advocate fire
the American -Pay- chological Board of Admiral "But it is vitally necessary to All this may presuppose con- Wor pensioners alto get a re- fund in the same way, where the Alan G. Kirk, formerly let the Russian people know that ditions which may not infect Such conditions, tas The average number of prescription is needed because of Ambassador in Moscow, is the free world understands their exist.
accepted war ditabilities. Other expected
reasonable to bring big pligat so that they do not just adequate housing, items on each form in June people can claim hardship but
resign themselves to their fate. income, good education and .in. American
good health, Then the shilling 'charge was 1.69 compared with 1.57. must convince the National As- changes ability to pay before getting their Soviet.. went on and the Ministry in June last year. In July, sistance Board of a genuine in propaganda directed at the of Health estimates to save the ratio dropped a point to thilling back.
Admiral Kirk knows the £12 million in the first year. 1.68, against 1.57 in July,
1951. Some areas, for no Out-patients at hospitals are Russians as few Americans
each time medicines apparent reason, are well charged
drugs
todo, so well that he habitual. bre dispensed Working Smoothly above the average.
them but do not pay for ly speaks of "the Russins" shose administered at the hospi--not in the old imperialist This lumping of prescrip- tal.
Nor do outpatients The system is working tions on to one form is receiving national assistance or sense, but to differentiate' smoothly after inevitable causing concern. The Pharing VD clinics. No in-patient of (which he also knew well) war pensions or patients attend between the "Old Russia" early grumbles, Britons maceutical Journal, official a hospital has to pay.
and the Communist Russia have accepted the charge organ of the Pharmaceutical almost unreservedly
Appliances supplied through of today. Society, observes: "If this what it is a deterrent to tendency continues, tho a hospital are charged for thus:
Ho does not believe in Elastic hosiery, 5s. or 104, each; over-dosing and an effort to amount received from the surgical abdominal supports, £itelling the Russians about reduce the health service levy will fall short of the cach; surgical footwear, £3 a the U.S.A. Declaration of bill a little.
anticipated reduction in pale; a and whs, £2 103. cách. national expenditure, and on Available, returns since the pharmaceutical side it introduction of the charge
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shops and
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It seems they are.
income
Rising Costs
"What's the use," he said in
attending school full-time, to how well Americany live, when their national assistance and war pen- there isn't even word in
sion recipients or to in-patients Russian for deep-freeze? They at the time the appliance is just do not know what you're supplied.
talking about half the time.
"Ameritane do not realise how
Weno
The history of prescription different their background is charges, really goes back to 1949 from the Ruzdim. The Rus- Out-sciting to an extent the when the Socialist Government glans did not march in the
prescription took powers under an Amend-Crusades. They from
hardly charger is the continued rise in ment Act to introduce charges. touched by the Reformation or The first month, June, prescription costs. In June, It never Wed them. the the Restainance. Allusions 10
timp. Mr Copies of photographs showed an overall decline for the average cost of each prescrip- Attlee raid there had our history mean nothing to
was about 48 2d, boen evidence of an unnecessary them." taken by the South China England and Wales.of 15.57 tion priced
percent in the number of mpared with just under 43 id recourse to doctors, and that the
in May and 3s-10d in June fee should be imposed 03 3 Of his work at the head of the ments to the Local Morning Post, South China prescriptions filled out. But last
year. The total cost deterrent and economy measure. Peychological Strategy Board, Post-Harald, and .
medicines in July, which provides the of
and and Non-Local Storm Sunday
general The then Minister of Health, Admiral Kirk says little, Bignal Codes.
China Mail Staff Photo- Intest figures available, the pharmaceutical goods supplied Mr Anourin Bevan, resisted the
under prescriptions in the cur- move strongly, and it was left But he does let it be known on view in decrease was only 5.5 per rent financial year has been to the Tory Government to take that he places no faith is stirring graphore aro
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