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THERE could be no better illustration of the extent to which the importance of the health of the nation is now generally realized than the general support which the broad policy of the Ministry of Food has received, as indicated in the lecture of Prof. J. C. Drummond on “War-Time Nutrition and its Lessons for the Future” delivered before the Royal Society of Arts on May 6 (J. Roy, Soc. Arts, 90, 422, 1942), or than the declaration of some two hundred members of Parliament of all parties in favour of family allowances. Even the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, long the backbone of opposition, is now in favour of a State scheme, and resolutions in favour of a scheme of family allowances, and the right to all forms of medical attention and treatment through a national health service, were passed at the annual conference of the Labour Party in London. The general principle of family allowances in the form of cash payments from national funds was also approved at the Cooperative Congress in Edinburgh on May 25.
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HEALTH SERVICES AND POPULATION PROBLEMS. Nature 149, 707–710 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149707a0
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