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even 11 o'clock every evening, although it is well known
that the growing child requires from 10 to 12 hours in bed
every night.
I should like to be able to report that young children
would only be admitted to entertainment halls in the daytime,
and that a very thorough system of ventilation was
always insisted on by the County.
The lack of parental control is evident later, when you
see youths smoking all day, even at work, and as a consequence
looking pale, coughing incessantly and becoming
catarrhal.
Every year we have to record an average which is far
too high for Pulmonary Tuberculosis (consumption) in
youths of both sexes who would never become susceptible if
they kept fit.
The majority of those who reach middle age die in the
fifties and sixties instead of reaching the seventh and eighth
decade.
The tendency to keep late hours, to take cocktails,
irregular and improper diet, is not the correct antidote to
the increasing stress of life spent in town or even at home.
There is no doubt that a large number of people are still
living dangerously and are acquiring a condition of very
low resistance.
Hence the susceptibility to colds, to influenza, phthisis,
pneumonia—later to cancer and scores of other ills that are
constantly awaiting us.
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER,
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
Supply of Anti-toxin.
General.
The Council supply free of charge to any practitioner
for use in this district, Diphtheria Anti-toxin, Tetanus
Anti-toxin, Anti-Streptoccoccus Serum, Sputum containers,
Swabs, Widal Outfits, Specimen containers, etc.
During office hours these can be obtained from the
Public Health Department and at all other times from the
Ambulance House adjoining the Fire Station.
Information as to this and also as to the removal of
cases, infectious and otherwise, is communicated by me to
Medical Practitioners in the following form :—
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