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(6) Through the National Insurance Act and 

 the National Health Week, having in mind (a) the 

 power of Insurance Committees and Approved 

 Societies to contribute to nursing associations, and 

 to disseminate information ; (b) the remarkable ex- 

 perience of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 

 of New York, who have found it financially worth 

 while to provide nursing to their beneficiaries through- 

 out the United States ; and (c) the generous con- 

 tributions of the industrial life assurance companies 

 in this country to the expenses of the National Health 

 Week ; 



(7) Through the instruction of the future parents 

 of the nation in the public elementary schools, by 

 courses on home-making and motherhood in those 

 continuation schools that should before long become 

 compulsory on every child up to the age of 16. In 

 these classes due importance must be attached to 

 the fundamental factors of character, morality and 

 religion ; 



(8) Through the issuing to the public of the 

 annual reports of all medical officers, either at cost 

 price or less, a notice to that effect on the outside 

 of the report being made compulsory, so as to give 

 to the ratepayers the facts and conclusions, at present 

 too often hidden from them. 



Specific Tasks for the Public Health Sewice. 

 Compared with the value of parental instruction and en- 

 couragement, all else is in the third flight. In regard 

 to milk, the recent order of the Board of Agriculture, 

 if properly carried out, is likely to have a far- 

 reaching effect ; but the Milk Bill should be no longer 

 delayed. The tuberculosis scheme is on its trial. 

 The housing problem, while much advanced by the 

 1909 Act, is waiting for its solution until the expense 

 of building new houses is, to some extent, shouldered 

 by the State. The rates and taxes must share the 

 increased cost of rehousing the tenants of houses that 



