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If State aids to health are to be enjoyed, there should be a
corresponding penalty if the requirements of the administration
are flouted, and the public resources wasted, through the neglect,
supineness or wilfulness of the persons benefited.
Unless some such change as 1 have indicated does occur in our
methods, progress in national health and vigour must necessarily
be arrested, by reason of the enormous cost of administering,
or attempting to administer, without adequate powers of
control. Signs of this are already obvious enough in relation to
the schools and the work of medical inspection, even to the casual
reader of the newspaper. But what is wanted is a leader of the
masses, who will have the courage to insist on duty as a function of
the people. To quote the now sufficiently hackneyed lines, then
indeed we may see "Jerusalem, in England's green and pleasant
land."