TUBERCULOSIS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17938, 5 December 1923, Page 9

TUBERCULOSIS.

I rJ fl# GEB SERL ™' TO FINANCE jjgCOVBREBn*: with Dr ' Sp f~ to obtaining tor ?£+»*• i*™ 1 - S Jt "haa Allen fl" d tlle Hon - H'*SL •' w " llingl °"; fc* Jenifer's laboratory, and the clinical results. under consideration by finance Dr. for OHO y ear to exfcent (jK%f this, £16,000 will be the mortgage on Ne* Zealand, £IO,OOO t <^ debt ,.»dthe b.l--o*,, irking expenses for I* *l g would provide good, fJ< !Ltete. KTtim by the end ot rtrtber £12.000 would proand enable *ew Bte bwe complete serum by ladle of 1925- , , , of his personal debts, 2?jtf16,000 and £24,000 un%t Jo the bank, and running ZtH £24,000, would secure to practically tho whole out- & to the end of 1926. LjBW kn is ginng £loo ° an &o-Neff Zealander £IOOO. jU Alloa i 0 a PP eals t0 the Sf donations to the extent of jm jepresentiDg half the total s?iiacbeme to the end of 1926. >fc«ifaeed that it would be a (jAertisement for the Dominion, (gwfto * valuable economic proffer tfit dairying industry, as \»ti greatest benefit to tsJ r ' tlliegy tpF O76B tbe scheme, and jtaostl Parliamentary CommitJjttliitnrn to New Zealand to (MjrwfUd to Jhe Government %}■,' < IfSil, FOB FUNDS. k-. ~~ |»ALLOW FINAL TESTS. i~: jHtf IMOOITIOir TILKQBAJf.) I fttUNGTON, December 4. % t!» cable message regarding ifjw'illfen's negotiations with [ijffiUP' to secure for New Zeaof his treatment of ijwa to the Actingon. Sir Francia iada the following the High Commispns from New Ipaßlinger's laboraI creditors, and to nie of his efforts, f 0P tho results of ii, CoJlins's recent ken by him under > T ew Zealand Govt. recognises that re, probably is in «ficial object, and Kiblic subscriptions High Commissioner iwiully, to enable ta to be Obtained. Mr, unable to asof certifying. that the final C6SB * S a * )3o ' u^e an<^

HOLDS BACK. against ACTION. M6 1 CABLE ASSOCIATION.) ,jteWtIRKR, December 4. Sir iWille Howse, by the Federal BSS mature into the SpahHas returned from a He-said that h© does resommend the Gov<ffle penny on * the Spahlinger, who SjMfr ctipp}j a partial serum * complete serum for I&r the partial serum he wd for the complete - _ TOO GREAT. ra«KMORE»S VIEW. • Blackmore, of the was asked for his jrabhc. a ® es Allen's negotiabe too high eai6 of consumption, money should Providing means for ijSg. treatment which Spahlinger had iia treatment for 10 world knew little the treat&oro definite now. Dr. Sw that he did not COmme rcially nor K fig tad tlie treatment refused to , o PP°rtunity of investiNk> 5Si^ lutcl J r "fused to P-Wimin^ 6 ? to ez P ert test. ? ord > aa( i although IS»Ao£ rß t>,t ud egged him t0 §®,W thing to be investiIfMi&W of the Britain had ask- ... send representagatoft'Wa., 8 before treatment, treatment, and to n^ h -fa i.? t " lem selves.. The hu.ii * ai >t to know the the request Tigure^ Save some most illustrate his point HK* >t too great for a Infirmaries

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in Great Britain spent £1,000,000 a year on distress caused by consumption. One of the leading Friendly Societies, the Oddfellows, sprat £500,000 annually on T.B. cases. The statistics showed that in the past years, of the- people who died in Groat Britain between the years of 20 and 45 deaths of over 50 per cont. each year were caused by consumption, 150,000 were disabled annually by the disease, and there were over 500,000 constantly suffering from the complaint, The Committee of Health in New York after careful calculation decided that the total annual cost of T.B. to the XJ.S.A. is £66,000,000 (not dollars). Dr. Blackmore said that in consideration of these figures New Zealand would be justified in spending a good deal of money on investigation work alone. A Warning. Dr. Blackmore uttered a warning to the pepole' of the Dominion. He urged that the Spahlinger treatment should not be accepted as a cure. It wa3 not proved. It may be good, or it may not be good, but it was worth investigating. Dr. Spahlinger had both a serum and a vaccine, the former for advanced cases and the latter for the early stages of the disease. « If the serum and vaccine were brought to Nevy Zealand, Dr. Blackmore added, they could be put_ to a thorough test under ideal conditions. For instance, he had 140 patients constantly under treatment and when the Dreyer method came out he wad able, immediately, to use it on about fifty patients, who were at varying stages of the disease. This could be done at one or two places in New Zealand with the treatment, and in a very short time it would be possible to soe whether it was of any value or not. . As to the proposal to obtain the serum for New Zealand, Dr. Blackmore said: "I would be very sorry, if the treatment turnod out a success and it were confined in any way to New Zealand. Tuberculosis is a world-wide disease, and any cure for it should be world spread. I don't think there should be a monopoly in any country for a cure for a disease." With regard to Dr. Collins, who had accompanied Sir James Allen to Geneva,. Dr. Blackmore said that he was not a specialist in tuberculosis, and it would have been much more satisfactory if an expert had gone 111 his stead.

TOO GOOD TO MISS. Dr. Mclntyre, of the Coronation Hospital, expressed himself as delighted that New Zealand had taken the lead with regard to investigating thoroughly the Spahlinger treatment. The opportunity was too good a one to miss. Although it remained to be proved whether the treatment meant a cure, there was every justification for investigation.