RADIUM TREATMENT.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18241, 27 November 1924, Page 11

RADIUM TREATMENT.

Idepartment in opera- >§.'. .HON-: . • ' .■ : report dealing with. the activities North Canterbury Hospital newly-established radiuiTi . depifVent, f°v the period from NoveniiS/'Sth to 23rd, was presented to yestljdavVmieeting of tho Board by Dr. P/- C.' Feiwibk, medical officer in cfiiyfep'- *•"* ' stated: '"' I ; be S." to '• r<> Jpr.UM I began dutvpii November tool Duf'after soiffe necessary selay I was able to begin treatment on the 19th. I have a considerably .waiting and, am • endeavouring to brcrtaJie'-.tKs; As the lif© of-the X-ray . .tubs is limited to about on© hundred flours of, activity,. it is necessary to givo tho instrument af rest between treatments. I find it is unwise to treaV ifl.qro thdn'.tAvo patients'' each radium - purchased ;by tlie the.-,late ■ Miss Barrett arrived safdijy and has been in'constant use. amount is small, only 4o milligrammes, compared with tho quantity wsi'ch v jrjjl shortlyi-be at the disposal ofjiihe IJiospital ;vbut:l believe that good result's "will tei'obtaihed,.' and that when' tile,'larger Supply arrives, wo will : be' ablfr to treat quite a. number of cases simultaneously, and thus save valuand- avoid disappointing ■patients'whoso treatment has to bo decayed owing to, tho radium being already flu vtinie. At present the class of patient (applying for treatment is, I much re;gret to say, an advanced one, but ! iope that soon we shall see patients in ian earlier stago of illness and in .these cases treatment holds out much 'better -prospects of success. - A.'letter was also received from Dr. Jazarus Barlow, of tho Essex Cancer Research Laboratory, in which lie referred in the highest terms to Dr. Fen.Tfick's zeal and ability. _ lie chairman (Mr H. J. Otley) sain that tho Board had already written to Dr. Barlow expressing its deep sense indebtedness and; gratitude to him ;for his assistance in establishing the ;Board's radium department. No man could have done more for them thai> .Dr. Barlow had done. Mr Otley 3d"" «d that they all recognised that they •had been extremely fortunate in being •able to send Home such a mail as Dr. Feuwick to study radium treatment 'and take charge of the Board's new ■department. , . , The'report and letter were received.