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Article: A need for tough love in the time of cholera.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- June 16, 2004
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Byline: Chris Upton
The nation is growing obese, reported the Public Health Committee of the House of Commons last week. The future for revolving doors and micro-lite aircraft is grim. Whether we take any notice is up to us, I suppose, but the government is obliged to if the whole of the annual budget of the NHS is not to spent on nips, tucks and fatty deposits.
The very concept of 'public health' is not something the early Victorians would have understood. To them health, along with transport, property, wages and ...