CANCER RESEARCH

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 19, 24 January 1938, Page 11

CANCER RESEARCH

EMPIRE CAMPAIGN

RESULT OF APPEALS

EFFORTS REALISE £63,678

-Although the period was a difficult one for charitable appeals, £63,678 was raised by the appeal department of the British Empire Cancer Campaign in the twelve months ended July 31, 1957, compared with £64,682 in the previous twelve months,' states the annual report presented at a meeting in the House of Lords on November 30 last. Collections to defray the cost oi" local Coronation celebrations, an intensive , campaign to raise money for the King George Memorial Fund, and a number of other national appeals made more difficult the efforts of collectors, "The number of flag days and house-to-house collections organised during the year was 1704, as compared with 1787. in the previous year," says the, reports. "The committee desires to express its thanks and deep appreciation ta the thousands of voluntary helpers who have again undertaken the diffi-, .cult task of organising and carrying out these collections. In. order to| stimulate our voluntary helpers, in their good work, Lord Nuffield has generously presented to the campaign I a very handsome silver trophy to. bei competed for annually. It will be, awarded to the town or village collect- ■ ing the most money per head of popu-' lation. This is ,the' fourth year of the Empire Day Appeal which was inaugurate i ed by his Majesty the King, when the i Duke of York, at the Mansion House i in 1934. During these lour years the sum of £256,116 has been collected, as I compared with the sum of £297,0741 raised in the ten years previous. . . . The committee records .with pride that once more numerous efforts have been' organised- by British residents overseas, and collections have been held in Northern Rhodesia, Kenya," British Guiana, British Honduras, Port Said, Lagos, Sierra Leone, Montreux, Stockholm, Rotterdam, The Hague, Nice, San Remo, Zomba, Sofia, Borne, Angora, Aden, Basra,' Amay, Chiengmai, Tokio, Zurich, Beirut, Florence,. Mukden, Bolivia, Amman, Dar-es-Salaam, Harbin, Basutoland, Seychelles, Yokohama, and Tangier.' The, help afforded by these British communities in far off lands will be a source of much encouragement to those engaged in the work of cancer research within the Empire, ' ' "The street collection held' throughout the Metropolitan Police area and City of London," continues the report, "resulted in £5917 being collected, as compared" with £5262 the previous year. Although that amount was gratifying, sight must not be lost o.f the fact that in the past year the campaign had made grants totalling £27,502 to the research of the hospitals jin the metropolis. s j "No fewer than ,104,510 letters were dispatched from the appeal depart- ! ment, and 3000 parcels of material for .flag days and house-to-house collections, etc., were jent from headquarters by post or rail."