In Aid of Radiation

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 69, 15 December 1923, Page 15

In Aid of Radiation

The establishing of the Radium Department and the improvement of Radiation treatment, will cost £lO,OOO (net) voluntarily subscribed, plus Government subsidy. That £lO,OOO could be raised by 300,000 residents of the middle belt of the North Island with a levy of less than ninopence a head or (say) less than three shillings a family. Less than ninepenoe a head is a cheap price to pay for the best cancer-fighting equipment known to mankind. The best cancer-fighting equipment known to-day consists of Radium and X-Rays. And as the Wellington Hospital authorities aim to develop both Radium and ’X-Rays treatments, the Radium Appeal is an Appeal for Radiation The obstacle to be immediately surmounted is the provision of Radium, but both branches of Radiation treatment are contemplated in making the Appeal. Radium and cancer stand in the foreground, but the whole scope of the movement comprises Radiation treatments and embraces other diseases than cancer. It is important that this should be understood by those people who, rightly, have been impressed with the good work done by the X-R-aya, aa aa try Radium.