Medicine: Health in Britain

The Chief Medical Officer of the British Ministry of Health flew the ocean last week to explain to the U.S. how Great Britain, with an inadequate war supply of doctors, nurses, medicines, food, has organized its few resources so that the great mass of its citizens show "no obvious deterioration of health." To 2,000 U.S. Public Health workers at their Atlantic City convention, Sir William Wilson Jameson explained Britain's new system of public medical care in wartime.

Facts on wartime health:

> About 400,000 hospital beds were prepared for emergencies. To everyone's surprise, there...

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