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RATIO OF UNFIT
ONE IN THREE!
Alarming British Figures
COST £220,000,000 YEARLY
LONDON, Wednesday. — Professor
Percy Lelean (Professor of Public
Health, Edinburgh University) in a
presidential address to the Scottish
Royal Sanitary Association, estimated
that physical unfitness was costing
Great Britain about £220,000,000 a
year.
"If diet and exercise were remedied,
the national physique would be visibly
improved in two years," he said, "and
would be restored in two generations."
Referring to the League of Nations
Nutrition Committee, he said the mat
ter was too urgent to be thus rele-.
gated to the spare hours of otherwise
engaged scientists. Ample Government
funds should £e provided for research.
It seemed, in view of the Olympiad,
he said, that other countries and not
Britain had learned something from
the playing fields of Eton. The ratio
of fit adolescents in Britain was one
out of three, compared with Germany's
four out of five.
The Ministry of Labour is taking
steps to secure the provision of ade
quate medical services at centres of
instruction for unemployed juveniles,
since health is an important factor
in getting and keeping the employ
ment for which they are being trained.
The services will include a supply of
milk for boys and girls who show
symptoms of subnormal nutrition.
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