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WITH the terrible wastage of the lives of the best of the nations manhood in the European conflict, and with a birth-rate the lowest on record, if the country is to recover after the termination of the war and to maintain its place among the nations as a great and thriving industrial Power, it will be necessary for us to conserve to the utmost those lives which we possess and those which we may expect to be born to us. While it may not be practicable at present to anticipate a definite increase in the birth-rate, though it is to be hoped there will before long be a change for the better, it is possible to do much to reduce disability and loss of life from preventable disease. The campaign against venereal disease, the crusade against tuberculosis, the care now being taken of munition and other workers, and the medical consultations at infant welfare centres and it school clinics all aim at this and are valuable aids towards its consummation.
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A Ministry of Health . Nature 99, 128–129 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099128b0
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