AN APPEAL.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18635, 9 March 1926, Page 2

AN APPEAL.

SPAHLINGER RESEARCH. (FROM OUR OH'X COKRESrOXRENT.) LONDON, January 31. Efforts to secure funds to place M Spahlinger beyond the claims'of his creditors are moving forward, and it seems as though the object in view will be attained. Whether ft will be possible to keep the bacteriologist along the narrow path of a business agreement is another matter. He was to have come to England to inoculate certain calves a month or two ago, but so far he has not put in an appearance. Appeals, however, are shortly to be issued to leaders of 'industry, the organised workers, and the general public, for £IOO,OOO with which to secure a thorough test of'the claims made for the Spahlinger treatment of tuberculosis. Mr and Mrs Roscoe Brunuer, of Belmont Hall, Xorthwich, Cheshire, are primarily concerned in the promotion of these appeals, and that to be addressed to employers of labour will be issued at the instance of Messrs Brunner, Mond, and Company, chemi-r cal manufacturers, of Northwich. It has the support of Mr Neville Chamberlain, Minister for Health, and of Sir Alfred Mond. a former holder of that office. The fund is to be administered by a British board of trustees; of whom the original four members will be Sir A. D. Steel-Maitland, Minister for Labour; Mr Tom Shaw, ex-Minister for Labour; Sir Alfred Mond: and Sir H. E. Bruce Bruce-Porter, M.D. Mrs Brunner declared that if they could not get the money she would sell her Brunner Mond shares and live in a cottage, so that the benefits of Spah linger's discoveries could 'be ser cured for suffering humanity. Trades Union Support. A sum of £IOOO has been voted by the National Union of Seamen to any :fund that may be started by the Parliamentary Committee of the Trade's Union Congress for the development of the treatment in order that the treatment may .be brought within reach of the working classes. The secretary of the union', of which Mr Haveloqk Wilson is president, said that the object of the union was to encourage other trade unions to take a hand in the securing of the Spahlinger treatment for the benefit of all trade union members. Action by Swiss Government. For the moment, Sir James Allen is a little out of touch'with affairs relating to M. Spahlinger, but he mentions that the Swiss. Government recently sent a medical deputation tointerview the bacteriologist and to examine his work arid his laboratory. As a result, the Swiss Government have awakened to the fact that there is a man in their midst who is worth looking after. The High Commissioner states sbat two funds have now been established in England—the one forbuying the laboratory in Geneva, and the other for"carrying on."the bovine experiment at Crewe. M. • Spahlinger,: he states, is expected to come over to England '-at any time. r '