Moses is-regarded as the first public officer of health, Dr. W. C. Varvey, medical officer to the Southgate Council, declared when speaking on “Public Health Ideals” yesterday, “Reynolds Newspaper” reports to-day.
The set of rules which Moses gave to the Children of Israel, which can be found in the Book of Exodus, he said, has never been bettered.
Dr. C. W. Saleeby, the famous health authority declared in an article dealing with Dr. Sorsby’s paper on “Jews and Cancer” delivered at the International Cancer Congress that “not in this country only, but throughout the world, the laws of Moses, who was incomparably the greatest sanitarian in recorded time, are at this moment saving large numbers of Jewish men and women from forms of cancer which ravage their Gentile neighbours”.
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