CANCER SCOURGE.
MOST PRESSING PROBLEM IN AUSTRALIA TO-DAY. BETTER TRAINING FOR. DOCTORS WOULD REDUCE MORTALITY. United Press Assfi. by El. Tel. Copyright (Australian Press Association.) (Received April 16. 8.46 p.m.) SYDNEY, April 19. Giving evidence before a special Federal committee investigating the establishment of a School of Public Health in connection with Sydnev University, Professor Chapman said the most pressing problem confronting the medical profession in Australia to-dav is cancer, which accounted for one "in every ten deaths. The mortality was increasing, but they knew if better training, for medical men was available, it could be reduced.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10563, 17 April 1928, Page 3
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