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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Finchley 1903
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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"Preventable disease does not kill only; too often it maims
or enfeebles, so that in a substantial, perhaps in a very large,
proportion of cases, it subtracts the patients whom it may ultimately
spare from the sum of the vigorous, and adds them to the
sum of the relatively inefficient. If in any large number our
weakly members are left as such by the passing shadow of disease,
how can we despise the labours of the sanitary reformer ?"
PROFESSOR. T. CLIFFORD ALLBUTT.