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Camberwell 1923

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.

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in the prevention of disease and the deformities arising from
diseases.
Those who work at Infant Welfare Centres have seen
wasting children improve visibly week by week; have seen
incipient cases of diarrhoea and pneumonia caught in the
early stages and readily cured, instead of slowly but surely
developing into the serious cases.
A further example may be quoted, that of rickets, which
with organised supervision yields to treatment. We are
consequently faced with the alternatives of the prevention of
children coming into the world, or when they are born they
must be placed on such a basis that they are not a dead
weight on the community as a whole.