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SINCE October 17, when most of the newspapers gave prominence to an announcement that the Ministry of Health Bill had been re-cast and submitted to the War Cabinet, possibly because the body named has had other things to think of, nothing has been heard of this measure. Much, however, has been said and written of the Ministry itself, and a certain amount, none of it good, of the Local Government Board, the reason being the extent and seventy of the influenza outbreak. If some of the speakers and writers are to be believed, the Board, because its methods are “wooden,” or because of its “Poor Law taint,” is mainly to blame for the epidemic: if there had been a Ministry in existence, the suggestion is that there most certainly would have been no outbreak.
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The Ministry of Health Bill and After . Nature 102, 186–187 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102186c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/102186c0