The "Daily Mail is, of course, in tears that there is no promise of drastic economy and declares that a Budget. of £820,000,000 a year is "éryjing up the springs of industry." As 'a matter of fact the public appar-_ ently does not want drastic econom; There are between 40 and 50 million units of population who benefit by the social services, How can one expect a public so affected to vote for reduction of their own ben eft?
In short the Budget may not be startling but it is sound, Tt shows that Mfr. Churchill realizes the res-possibilities of a Chancellor of the Exchequer, and while willing _to make innovations, carefully abstains from running risks and this is what, we want in a Chancellor nowadays. leprosy with the last few years, was the establishment of early treatment centres and the training of [doctors in the diagnosis of the early lEymptome. He urged that dispensaries, besides treatment, must carry Jon a trong propaganda for general hygiene. In. connexion with. -the Purulia Miesion in India Dr. Cochyane mentioned the interesting {fect that treatment ey chaulmoogra oil had been especially successful, it} having led to a decrease in the death rate from 25 to 8 per cent.
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