“…Some of these blessings are material in nature, others are spiritual, and not least among the spiritual manifestations has been the development of a social conscience, which stirs a people to attempt to ameliorate the lot of the oppressed. …”

“…As a result, first the school medical service, and then the welfare services for mothers and infants emerged as signs of a more enlightened social conscience. For those who are excluded from these services there is no preventive medicine, except in the case of one or two isolated experiments such as the Peckham Health Centre. …”