T.B. AND CANCER

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1930, Page 8

T.B. AND CANCER

MONEY FOR RESEARCH

CHRISTCHURCH PROPOSAL

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Eveninu Post.")

CHEISTCHURCH, This Day.

Although £250 from the W. H. Travis estate has been given to the Dominion Cancer Campaign Fund for research at Otago University, the rest of tho income from the bequest of about £40,000 will be used to establish a special department for research into tuberculosis and cancer at the Christchurch Hospital if the negotiations now in progress between the trustees of the estate and prominent Christehureh doctors are successful.

Mr. Travis left the money with the provision that it bo applied toward discovering cures, for these two diseases. He was a resident of Christchurch and made his money there, and the trustees (Messrs. H. Pearco and 0. V. IJergh) feel that, other things being equal, the money should be spent in Canterbury. In this the medical men concerned-concur. It is considered that any work done in cancer research at the Christchurch Hospital will not overlap that done at Otago University, and special facilities already exist in Christchurch for the study of tuberculosis. "I and my co-trustee arc anxious if it is at all possiblo to confine the research under the terms of the bequest to Christchurch," said Mr. Pearce. He explained that Mr. Travis V will had been proved for about £80,000, but after private bequests had been made and a paternal Government had taken £ 15,000 in death duties in spite of a protest, about £40,000 was left as the capital fund, for research. From this there would be an income of from £2000 to £2500 a year available, while there was already £4000 to £5000 in the accumulated interest fund. This should provide sufficient funds for a competent man to undertako research."

Several grants have already been made from the Travis fund. The trustees found £ 700 for tho purchase of radium for the radium department at the Christchureh Hospital and £300 with which radium needles ' were bought.