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(By Murray Gaunt M.P.P.)
The Acting Minist er of Health
has warned that Ontario could
face a moderate polio epidemic in.
five or ten years unless children
and young adults continue to have
regular booster shots against the
disease. She said that inoculation
cannot be made mandatory, but a
regular anti-polio programme
should be maintained by
everyone until the age of forty.
First inoculation shots are
important but it is equally vital to
maintain a programme of
immunization, The Ministry of
Health has estimated that as
many as 25 per cent of children
entering Grade 1 in the province
this year will not have received
proper immunization against
diseases such as polio, diphtheria
and rubella (German Measies) -
probably because people have
tended to become complacent
about these diseases as there has
not been an epidemic for som
eyears.
Ontario's Energy Minister has
strongly condemned the federal
government's energy strategy,
but both opposition parties in the
Legislature have been very
ciritical of the provincial
governments alternative of a
"blended" price for oil. The
federal government wants
domestic oil prices to rise to the
world level over two or three
years. which would acid 18 cents a
gallon to the price of gasoline and
about 78 cents to the price of
1,000 cubic feet of natural gas,
which is sest at 85% of the price
of the heating equavalent in oil.
The Provincial Energy Minister
called the federal policy "not only
folly but basically irresponsible".
Liberal Leader Stuart Smith
criticized the federal government
which he said has. not had "a
coherent energy policy for quite
some time" and the provincial
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government for having even less.
policy. He accepted the principle.
that domestic oil prices should
rise toward world prices through.
"a gradual movement once the
crunch is over in our economy".
We will be running out of oil
supplies in five years, and shall
have to go to world prices at that
time. The N.D,P. said Ontario's
blended price proposal is out of
date because it involves old oil at
$8 a barrel a price which "bears
no relationship at all to the costs
of production". They called for
the nationalization of "a company
like Imperial Oil", which operates
across Cnada in all stages of the
oil business.
The A ttorney General has
resisted growing pressure from
Opposition Parties for a public
inquiry into the operation of
Ontario's private laboratories.
He considers that such an inquiry
would not serve the interests of
the public in spite of a recent
newspaper report, quoted in the
Legislature, that an OPP officer
had advised a physician
investigator with the College of
Physicians and Surgeons to carry
a gun during his investigation of
the private labs.
The Government has proposed
a Public Health Amendment Act
which would make it an offence
for the owner or operator of a
laboratory to "offer, give or
agree to give money or valuable
consideration". to any person as
an inducement or reward for a
request for the performance of a
test in the laboratory. The Act
provides for regulations to. limit or
prohibit the types of tests which
may be carried out in a partricular
laboratory, and provides that. a
laboratory licence may • not be
renewed if it is considered "not in
the public interest", Opposition
parties have called the bill
superficial and not worthy of
support.
Ethel
Mrs, Cliff Bray
Correspondent
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May 16th.
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