CANCER RESEARCH

Evening Star, Issue 19708, 8 November 1927, Page 5

CANCER RESEARCH

AUSTRALIAN DGGTOBS’ INVESTIGATIONS HOSPITAL STAFFING QUESTION DR MOLESWORTH’S VIEWS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 7. (Received November 8, at 9 a.in.) Extensive investigations have been completed by Drs Marau and Molosworth on behalf of the Sydney Cancer Research Fund in the United Kingdom and on tho Continent. Ur Maran devoted special attention to radium treatment, while Dr Molesworth concentrated on X-rays and skin aspects. Ho was impressed by tho remarkable work at Breslau, where the skin hospital has 900 bods and a paid part-time staff of twenty. Similarly, at Zurich there is a special hospital. Both are supported entirely by tho Stale. Dr Molesworth is of opinion that Australia will have to face the question of abandoning tho system of voluntarily supported honorary staffed hospitals, though he does not advocate full-timo staffs. Ho extols the Continental system, under which juniors do the routine work, but submit higher problems to the judgment of specialised heads, thus ensuring continuity of research. Dr Molesworth was not prepared to discuss Dr Gye’s cancer findings, but said that he had gathered the impression that Dr Gye had cast the whole of his theories into the melting pot because the previous deductions had been somewhat premature.