Attack : with a National 'Clean Throat' campaign / by A, Corbett-Smith
1929-10 1929 1920s 9 pages The Chinese, world-pioneers in most things, from the magnetic compass, gunpowder and printing to 'programme' music, seem also to have invented the admirable custom of paying their doctors only so long as the patient remains in health. Payment stops the mo...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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October 1929
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| Summary: | 1929-10
1929
1920s
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The Chinese, world-pioneers in most things, from the magnetic compass, gunpowder and printing to 'programme' music, seem also to have invented the admirable custom of paying their doctors only so long as the patient remains in health. Payment stops the moment illness appears. We have yet to convince millions in the need of prevention, and so to act that the way shall be made increasingly easy for them. And we have yet to enrol under the banner of Preventive Medicine thousands of general medical practitioners and specialists ; to convince them, also, of the axiom of the craft and to make it imperative upon them that they shall think first of all of keeping their patients in health. THE ISSUE OF THE MOMENT To-day, at this moment, we are faced with this most grave issue of preventable respiratory disease, with its heavy toll of suffering and death. We stand once again upon the edge of the year's most critical period. We know the causes of the diseases. We know the preventive remedy— Bring the facts home to the People! Medical men are usually bad publicists. Besides, it is not their job. The present task demands the skilled and specialised professional. Further, intensive concentration is needed. We propose not a general 'Health' campaign, but a "Clean Throat" campaign. THE VOLUNTARY SOCIETIES England and the British Commonwealth have been built, in a passion of recreation, upon voluntary effort. Our voluntary social societies and services are without parallel the world over. We have many concerned with the furtherance of the Public Health, and doing admirable work. Their whole-hearted co-operation in a strong, concentrated attack will certainly be gladly given. We shall seek it. Individualism, once our national pride, has, in these latter years, become our greatest national curse. Co-operation is the watch-word of to-day and of the future. OFFICIAL APPROVAL The Ministry of Health not merely approves such an enlightenment campaign, but most emphatically urges it. Ignorance is the chief cause of disease. "As in the individual," declares the Ministry, "so in the community, knowledge is the sheet-anchor of preventive medicine. Knowledge of the way of health, knowledge of the causes and channels of disease, knowledge of remedy." [Continued overleaf 3
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