Excerpt from Health and the State
A healthy population is the finest form of national wealth, and in an industrialised country its possession depends to a large extent upon the completeness of the Public Health services and the success they achieve in securing a sound environment. In this country great efforts are made to promote healthy conditions of living: Government Offices administer Public Health measures, Local Authorities supervise sanitary conditions, and other organisations, public and private, spend vast sums in providing medical treatment for the sick. But the value of these efforts is seriously lessened by the division of administration among a number of uncoordinated authorities, which overlap in various directions, and yet leave large sections of the ground untouched. Social reformers, impressed with the confusion and delay resulting from this system - or want of system - have long urged the formation of a Ministry of Health in order to promote efficiency in administration, and it is not necessary at the present time to emphasise the importance of any steps likely to improve the health of the people.
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