MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 64, 17 March 1898, Page 3

MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

(By Telegraph —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Dr. Fell's presidential address at the Medical Ascociation was devoted to the growth of cancer in New Zealand. This disease, he said, was a comparatively re- ! cent development, but now claimed in New Zealand alone. 3SO deaths per year. He read a table for the last 16 years, which showed a remarkable increase in the ; number of males who died from this cause. This was because the disease was more often internal in men than with women, and more inoperable. The number of deaths would be much larger but for the operations. A fair proportion of these were successful in prolonging life either for some years or for altogether. The cause of this disease no one could tell. There wa s ' an unknown something in it no one could name, but some day the riddle would be solved and preventative measures would check its ravages. He did not favour the theory that low lying and swampy districts had a good deal to do with cancer. A letter was received from Dr. Haeon, of Christchurch, desiring the Council to express an opinion as to the necessity for inspecting meat for export and and milk. It was resolved that the Council should consider, and, if necessary, move in the matter, Dr. Mackie thought the colony should have a State bacteriologist.