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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1986.

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The

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1836.

The MINISTER of HEALTH explains how

The

H

Government Plans a FITTER BRITAIN

By

The Rt. Hon.

SIR KINGSLEY WOOD,

20,000,000

weeka

P.C., M.P.

I hope, in the approaching session of Par liament, to be able to intro- duce a Bill to fill another gap --that which

occurs at pre- sent when child

leaves

of work to `enter employment and, hav- were lost in a single year ing lost the protection, of the among the insured population school medical service, is unable to enjoy the protection of the much is preventable.

National Health Insurance Scheme before the age of six- icen.

Much more, also, might be. done to help those who, though they are in no sense ill, are not SO fit as they should be to attain and maintain full physical vigour.

What, then, is the action to be taken?

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Another question to which much attention is rightly being directed at the moment is that of nutrition, and I believe that the dietary surveys which, at the request of my Advisory Committee, I am about to ask. local authorities to make on my

behalf will assist us to deter

mine how best to apply in practice the teachings of mo- dern science..

In a Haphazard Way FIRST, let me say a word about the prevention of disease, Our health services, which be gan with preventive measures designed to protect the com- Physical Training munity from auch dangers as NOW comes the question of faulty drainage

con- and

taminated water supplies, and

the steps we can take to. have now been extended to in- improve facilities for physical lude elaborate provision for the training and help our young health care of individuals at all people to keep fit.

How much we owe to the stages of life, have grown up,

EALTH and vigour. We Live Longer IGNORING THE

for all our people- THERE is no need to be as things are apt to grow in physical education given in our it is impossible to REALITIES

that is the ideal we' alarmed about the health of this country, in a rather hap. schools

estimate, but no one pretends the people of this country, hazard way.

that even here the provision is Although still treading a have set ourselves, and our Thanks to the discoveries Since the present Government complete.

Much useful work in this con- lonely furrow, in the sense that task now is to do all we can of modern science, the self- took office it has been our policy

sacrificing work of doctors to do all that is possible to com- nection is also being done by he commands no large political to make that ideal into a and nurses, and the many-sided plete the health services and voluntary bodies. following, Mr. Lloyd George reality.

activities of our public health build up a comprehensive sys- The thanks of the nation are services, great progress has tem for the health care of the due to all those who are giving people. A beginning has already devoted service to such splendid.

every now and then looms in the

domestic

of

Mr. Neville Chamberlain has been made.

organisations as the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements and the National Playing Fields Association.

news. but his declarations on given us an inspiring lead in In . comparatively short been made. and international his recent speech at Margate, period there has been a remark | affaire become increasingly diffi- He called then for an energetic able increase in the length of When They

life, and we have been able to cult to follow. Of late, the only campaign to help the young record a substantial fall in the Leave School

The number of organisations people of this country to keep death rates from many diseases, consistency he has shown hast, anil 1. S Minister of such as tuberculosis, measles, THE Midwives Act which be- of this kind is now very large, been in his general condem-Health, have been greatly en- and diphtheria.

came law a few months ago and I rejoice that this is go.

But they have, like our The point is not that we are filled

one gap-and nation of the policies

thecouraged by the splendid res-

public health services, grown degenerate race or that important one it

up in a piece-meal way, and Government, no matter what ponse which his speech has

health is deteriorating, ensuring that no mother shall

I believe that our first task is but that, of the particular sphere may be.

the ill-health Jack, at the time of her con-

to consider how best we can which persists a year or two finement the services of a fully

co-ordinate and extend all the ago it Was

calculated that qualified midwife.

excellent work that is being done so that it may all be directed to the object in view without undue overlapping or waste of effort.

evoked.

Ile has come into prominence Healthy Stock latterly as a pacifist condemning

the truth.

our'

a

Was

very by

Class-Room Comedy

"the mad race in armaments," WHAT are the facts to-day?

I hope no one will run away as he glibly describes the Gov-with the idea that we are a ernment's efforts to make its nation of weaklings, the de-

In the second place, we have defences adéquate to the de- generate sons of sturdier an

to make sure that in a country mands which at any moment cestors, and that drastic mea-

so rapidly of the scholars to The arithmetic lesson often pro- which has been

ours there are urbanised as may be made upon them by a sures are necessary to preserve THE return

school reminds us of the never vides some funny answers. world full of menace. It is true us from disease and decay failing humour of the average Bri- "Why do you always add up adequate facilities for games that in the Boer War, Mr. Lloyd Nothing could be farther from tish schoolboy. His "howlers" have wrongly in your home work?" the and exercise.

been the delight of his friends and teacher asked. Tommie Brook his

We are doing much to en- the despair, of his instructors. Here head. George was a pacifist, and a not

are a few,

"Anyone help you?" she queried. courage the provision of open- particularly popular one.

Our race is sprung froni

"Charles I was going to marry "Yes-my father." "Oh, and what spaces, recreation grounds and the Great War found him even-healthy stock, and most English- the Infanta of Spain, He went to is he?" "He's a waiter, teacher," swimming baths, and that work

must continue. tually in a very different role-men have always had, and have see her, and Shakespeare says he said Tommie.

never smiled again." namely, the spearhead of Allied to-day, a preference for a life

"After nineteen years in prison had started wee Geordie was works Depends on the People in the open air and for the out- Mary Queen of Scots was executed, ing out his sum with great patience. victory. No one knows better

she was young."

when am I

getun ma milk?" he than Mr. Lloyd George how theor sports which bring health and remained as beautiful as when Then he looked up. "Please, teacher,

"You'll "Clive imprisoned 146 men in the asked. to those who cultivate them.

milk, Geordie, when you've done your country.and the Allied cause

The increasing urbanisation the foundations of our Indian Em- suffered through lack of pre-

pouting, of the country which followed pre."

But.

Soon after the new milk scheme)

get your

N these and other ways the Government, local authorities

Black Hole of Calcutta, and so faid." "Pleuse, teacher," he said and voluntary organisations are

paredness and through difficulty the industrial revolution of the A class was told to write a short

essay on "The Funniest Thing 1 Ever! in accelerating the output of last century has, it is true, mul- Saw." One boy soon did it. He

,"it'll be soor."

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* "Wolscy saved his life by dying! on the Way to London where hol

seeking to do their part. But in the long run success must de pend on the people themselves.

Public health services and guns and munitions. In many tiplied the difficulties of attain-wrote:"--The funniest thing I ever was to executed," we are informed.

recreation grounds are a great A country.teacher had to smile "The inflammability of the Pope waste of public money if they passages of his many-volumed ing to the full these valuable aw was too funny for words."

We need history of the Great War Mr. aids to health, but there is when she saw in one of her pupils was proclaimed in the Vatican de- are not fully used.

an awakened Public Opinion- us all happily no sign that our desires exercise books-"A smock is a sort trees.“

uf nightshirt worn by country men. "The tractor сап plough Lloyd George has told

Elxnot, indeed, to make our people. in England during the day."

boroughs in the time a horse takes overcareful of their health-for about it, and incidentally claim-and inclinations have changed.

"Well, Johnnie," said uncle, "and to do one." ed for himself a greater degree

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how do you like going to school?” A schoolmistress was describing we do not want a nation of I don't mind going to school, to her class of small boys the hypochondriacs-but so that we of prescience than any of his made safe against potential "O!

Uncle, or coming home from school, different races of mankind, "The may all take full advantage of contemporaries, civil, military, enemics, but, by his attitude, he but the time in between bores me world is a vast area," she explained, the opportunities that exist for

stir."

"and the various tribes-------

a complete and vigorous life. or naval. Surely, then, if the has laid himself open to that

She paused and eyed the wee "Daddy," said little Willle, our laddle who could pay attention to necessity for Britain's being charge. The rivalry in arma- prepared to defend itself should ments may be regrettable, but teacher says that the world is round nothing but bools." "Well, Bobble," Be Careful, Not Fearful

It it is, and I wanted to go cast, 1 she said to him, "will you tell the **** be clear to any

person more it surely cannot be seriously could get there by going west class which is the greatest race in ET me say to all who read

he re- couldn't 17" "Yes, my son. Losh the world?"

this article-your health is than another, that person is Mr. contended that Britain should But you'll sure be a taxi-driver when plied. The Musselburgh Stakes."

The youngest of the family was largely in your own hands; be- Lloyd George. But we found sit with folded arms whilst you grow up."

"If a train is travelling" said the about to commence his education careful but not fearful of it,

Use the public health Ber- him recently sending a message other nations are arming to the headmaster to the senior class, "from when a visitor to the house naked to the Pacifist candidate in a by- teeth. Britain has run great Inverness to Edinburgh at 60 miles him"And when are you going to vices as and when you need

an hour, another is going from school, Kennie?" "Oh, I'm not go election, wishing him success risks in the recent past by at- Edinburgh to Inverness at 40 miles ing to school," answered the young them. If you are ill consult a and condemning the Govern- tempting to get others to accept an hour, where will they pass each hopeful. "I'm going to Heriot's doctor in good time; but it is other?" At the same place, sir!" Another small boy had just com-better to keep well by seeking pleted his first year, and mother was open air and exercise. I com- ment's efforts to make up ar-a policy of disarmament. She said the bright boy.

A few more historical "facta": celebrating the event with a little rears of armaments. It would, has now been compelled to give

The Brith Constitution is per- tea party. "And how do you like mend to you two lines of

Ita Mr. Smith, the headmaster, Freddie?" Verse:—~^ perhaps, be too much to say that up the effort. And the making fectly sound, but owing to

"Better to Hunt in fields for to "I heard he was like a father

health unbought, Mr. Lloyd George is more con- good of deficiencies is obviously insolent position it suffers from naked his uncle. "Oh, he's all right. "Hmm. He's worse than "Bunyan was the inventor of the you?" cerned to discredit the Govern- the only safe and sane alterna-

Presbyterian religion, and he wrote that!"

E. Vyner. ment than to see the country tive left,

The Pilgrim's Chorus.'"

fogs.

Than fee the doctor for ai

nauseous draught!""