One of the most promising devel-lopments in modern medicine is the attention that is now given to the Prevention of disease. Doctors thinking more and more of health and Tess and less of illness. Modern hygiene, "sanitation, exercise, and meny other things are helping then to Keep the people ft. Often the two principles of preventive and curative medicine are combined. Such is the case in the health centre at Peckham in South East London. 'The centre, which was opened on May 3, this year, and has now a membership of 350 families, is concerned with many aspects' of ife. Tt is an experiment in physiology, Psychology and sociology. It is a club where friends and people of ell classes of the community may meet as often as they choose. where they Bray obtain excellent advice on all; bjects pertaining {to health and General well-being, or where they nay merely enjoy their—lelsure together amid pleasant surroundings. The main aims of the centre are to Provide a self-supporting health Service in a mixed area, and to make available all the facilities which would be provided by a country club at a cost which Is well within the means of the poorest of its members, 'The frst report of the British Road Research Board covering the two years ended on March 31, 1935, has been recently issued, achievements that have been' made up to date, as well as the plans that have been' prepared for the future for better and safer roads. Under the present, scheme the Ministry of Transport is responsible for the con-duet of full-scale tests outside the
cases the Road Research Laboratory; in other responsibility" for rod jeesearch is undertaken by the Department of Scientite and Industeial ch. Arrangements have been to secure full technical vooperation between these two bodies in their future work. Dealing with the question of the durability of roads, the report states that the average expenditure on the construc-lon and maintenance, of roads Britain is over 250,000,000 a Dust prevention, which was years ago one of the main prolems confronting road constructors, has now been solved through the use of bituminous materials and concrete, The main present-day problems have to do with the settlement, drainage, ind other characteristics of the sub-all. These and similar questions are investigated in the Road Research Laboratory, whose work roving of the greatest value, An other section of the report deals wi: safely measures in connection with Skidding is an important contributory factor in aesidents, but it is being gradually fhinimized, partly by attention to road surfaces and partly by the introduction of better-designed vehicles.
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