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Johannesburg-Sir Alan Cobham
The fundamental problem of AFRICA'S AIR LINES. health was the wise and scientific nurture of the body--and it must be remembered that the healthy body itself fostered defensive pro- perties and resistant potentialities. A SOCIAL DUTY.
The elements of nutrition for the Inslating that the study of health body were food, fresh air and sun-
social national duty, Sir light, exercise, warmth, cleanli-arrived here to-day. He envisaged George Newman, Chief Medical ness, and rest. Officer, Ministry of Health, in a Ignorance of a sensible dietary from Alexandria to Kisimu and lecture delivered to the British was the cause of much preventable thence by aeroplane to the Cape. Medical Association, declared that disease, and people suffered from He says that East Africa de a-
little. disease was but a disturbance of the eating much rather than harmony of the body. It was "dis-Man's diet should be mixed and lous to link up with the Cape and the Sudan. The Kenya, Uganda, case," or "dis-harmony." Lord varied; should be sound in quality and Tanganyika Governments have and sufficient in quantity; should
guaranteed a joint subsidy of
Was B
Cozens-Hardy presided.
"In a civilised State." Sir George be consumed at regular intervals: Newman submitted, "it is the na- and should be appetising and diges- ture and nurture of the individual
tible, and the communal organisation of Bacon, Beer, and Pickles. opportunity which are foundations. "But merely to deviae ideal diet. of national health. The organisa-aries is not enough," added Sir the or George. "If a chemically ideal and tion of health, which Kanisation of fife, is the primary, model food be prepared in the though not the supreme, business laboratory with the proper amounts of Government, of statecraft, whe- of each essential constituent, and ther central ar local",
then it be sterilised, dried, or The articles of the modern prac-otherwise preserved, it will be tice of Preventive Medicine were: deprived of some or all of its vital
(1) A sanitary environment, the and natural principles,
"Fixed foods become auxiliary external scaffolding of health.
a trana-African flying boat service
£200,000 spread over five years.
Sir Alan believes there would be enormous traffic between the Union and Central and East Africa. He indicates an aeroplane route, from Nairobi (Kenya) to Arusha and Iringa, in Tanganyika, and then through Nyasaland to Fort Jame son, Blantyre, and Salisbury (Rhodesia).
The cost of air travel would be 10 per cent above first class rall.
The scheme involves £1,000,000 capital. Sir Alan Cobham intends to lay his proposals before the (2) Systematic nurture, begin-only, for they are deprived in some Union and Rhodesian Governmente. Aviation developments are an- ning before birth-the protection measure of their vital elements of of motherhood, infant welfare, and of variety of composition. arranging for a bi-weekly air ser- appetite, of taste and disposition,nounced by Col. Henderson, who is child hygiene, the care of the when we turn to the dietetic con- vice between Capetown and Johan- adolescent, a practical, comprohen-ditions of the great mass of the nesburg, starting in November. sive, and liberal education, and workers we find a tale of ham and wholesome food supply.
beef, of beer and bread, of tea and pickles, of tinned meat and pre- prietary foods, or a weary round of bacon and herring and cheese —and of an unstable digestive sys- tem and an impaired physique,"
(3) A preventive organisation, by which the, agencies of infection and disease are brought under con-
trol.
(4) Public and private medical
services in order that
correct
The aeroplanes are to have three
engines, will carry ten passengers, and will do the journey in nine
hours.
April 30, 1928.
Some food rules which it is ex- | HONG KONG HOTEL VISITORS. diagnosis and sound treatment pedient to adopt were set forth by may be available for the whole Sir George, as follows: community-general medical prac- Strict and persistent moderation tice, clinics, dispensaries, saria in diet tends to longevity, and ex- toriums, hospitals, factory medical cess tends to early mortality. service, a health insurance system, and medical accommodation for the poorest.
Nature has provided that food should be masticated, should rench the stomach slowly, and not too
Comparing the conditions pre-frequently. vailing in England in 1832, when The number of meals taken daily the British Medical Association is a matter of individual practice WOK founded by Sir Charles and custom, but for persons over Hastings, and the conditions to 40 years of age they are usually day, Sir George said that a century too frequent." ago the majority of Englishmen. dwelt in mean streets.
Since then there had been an
Messrs. Gordon Adair, Ashton. Messrs. A. M., Birchall, G. Burraws, Miss Edith J. Brask.
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and Mrs. K. C.. De Mrs. H. D. Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Dehn, Mr.
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Messrs. A. F. Henry, E. Hunt, No food should be taken between C. A. Henderson, J. L. Hunter, such regular meals, as eating pro-W. L. Harvey, H. C. Hardy, T. miscuously gives the body no rest. Higginbothom. S. J. Hicks, Lt. L. amazing transformation in the
A small quantity of beverage health of the people, for whom life with the
Healey. men is desirable, but was wider, and longer, and death there should be no excess of al-
Lt. J. W. Jorge, Mr. J. H. Jack- more remote. "Though the popu-cohol-alcohol is not in ordinary son. lation has more than doubled, the circumstances necessary to health; general death-rate for England and there should be, as a rule, no al- Wales has been halved since 1838;cohol before meals or between the child mortality under 5 for meals, and none for children. London is now about one-third of
There should be no active exer- cise immediately after a meal.
what it was; the number of denths under 50 years of age is now 38
"All Liver and no Lega' per cent, as compared with 71 per
Emphasising the importance of cent. in 1838; and the expectation fresh air, the lecturer said it was of life at birth has been extended almost as valuable to health as by as much as twelve years for food. Every school should be an boys and fourteen years for girls."open-air school, and every home an
The Week-End Habit.
open-air home, Insisting on the great part that But physical exercises must not has been played by the social fac-be overdone, or any aystem allow- tor in the Improvement of national ed to become a thraldom or fetish; conditions, the lecturer enumerat- we should not be specially violent ed, as sections of that factor, the in exercise on Saturdays and indulgence in outdoor recreationa, negligent of it for the remainder the week-end habit, travel and of the week. Motoring had its ad- change of air, and the manifold vantages, but we must beware of uses of leisure.
becoming "all liver and no legs." We must give up the idea that
Speaking generally, most people health was comprised in sewerage, stood in greater need of reat than disinfection. the suppression of movement. "Our American cousins nuisances, the burial of dead, and ourselves are getting much too notification and registration of restless for good health, or even disease, fever hospitals, and end-mental capacity And less restrictive by-laws and regula- There is an excess of noise tions. Health sprang from the clatter, chattering, and domestic, social, and personal life ingless, activities of the people.
which
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It is your ruddy, healthy indivi- no value or virtue in themselves, dual whose outlook on life is cheer- ful, Pessimism is doubtless on oc- We had not yet found the full and for children Bre directly answer to the question, "What is harmful,"
casion justified, but too often is the expression of a weak digestion, of exhausted nerves, of anaemic blood, and all the bodily pains and
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WAS not something arthyself and be moderate" was quot bitrary, capricious, or occult, but ed with approval by Sir George. was due always to definite causes: Two subtle dangers in these days and we knew that it was not an of public education in health were The tone of the mind depends external entity or agent-a sort of "stunts" and "panaceas." Nature upon the tone of the body. Where black dragon outside ourselves was too varied and the world too this latter is low, a tonic is in- which we had to slay or extermin-wide for ultimate truth to ledicated one that will build up
blood and nerves by ate. There was no external thing along that road.
reinforcing which we could call disease. It
On the other hand, perverse or natural processes within the sys- was something within the living ignorant unwillingness to accept item, that brings the flush of health organism.
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