Newfoundland and Labrador is a province of
Canada on the country’s Atlantic coast in northeastern North America.
When faced with bankruptcy in 1933, representative institutions were
suspended in favor of an appointed Commission that governed for fifteen
years without an elected assembly.
One of the Commission’s primary goals upon entering office was to
improve the country’s health-care services. It established a series of
government-subsidized cottage hospitals in 1935 to make affordable
medical services more accessible in rural communities.
Government officials also tried to reduce malnutrition rates by
including brown flour instead of white in dole rations, and by
distributing a vitamin-rich beverage ‘Cocomalt’, a chocolate mix, to schoolchildren for free.
According to the vintage ad above, ‘Cocomalt’ provided the Vitamin D kids need to develop “well formed, husky bodies.”
Why is this of interest today?
Well, in North America,someone dies from skin cancer every hour.
Are these deaths preventable and do people know about the dangers they face?.....
