SPAHLINGER TREATMENT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 15 March 1926, Page 9

SPAHLINGER TREATMENT.

CAMPAIGN TO RAISE FUNDS

SUPPORT FROM LABOUR

Efforts to secure funds to place Mr Henry Spahlinger beyond the claims of his creditors are moving forward, and it seems as though the object in view wilt lie attained (writes a London correspondent). Whether it will be possible to keej} the bacterologist along the narrow path of a business agreement is another matter. He was to have come to England to inoculate certain calves a month or two ago. but so far he has not put in an appeara nee.

Appeals, however, are shortly to be issued to leaders of industry, the organised workers, arid the general public for £1(X),0()() with which to secure a thorough test of the claims made for the Spahlinger treatment. of tuberculosis. Mr and Mrs Roscoe Brunner, of Belmont Hall. Northwich, are primarily concerned in the promotion of these appeals, and that to be addressed to empoyers of labour will be issued at the instance of Messrs Brunner. Mond and Co., chemical manufacturers, of Northwich. It has the support of Mr Neville Chamberlain. Minister of Health, and Sir Alfred Mond. a former holder of that office. The fund is to be administered by a British board of trustees, of whom ‘the original four members will be Sir A. D. Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour; Mr Tom Shaw, ex-Minister of Labour; Sir Alfred Mond: and Sir H. E. Brnce-Porter, M.D. 1 Mrs Brunner declared that if they could not get the money she would sell her Brunner Mond shares and live in a cottage, so that the benefits of Spahlinger’s discoveries could be secured for suffering humanity. TRADE UNION SUPPORT. A sum of £IOOO lias been voted by the National Union of Seamen to any fund that may he started by the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress for the development of the treatment in order that the treatment may be brought within reach of the working classes. The secretary of the union, of which Mr Havelock Wilson is president, said that, the object of the union was to encourage other trade unions to take a hand in the securing of the Spahlinger treatment for the benefit of all trade union members. ACTION OF SWISS GOVERNMENT. For the moment Sir James Allen is a little out of touch with affairs relating to Mr Spahlinger, but he mentions that the Swiss Government recently sent a medical deputation to interview the bacteriologist and to examine his work and his laboratory. As a result the Swiss Government lias awakened 1 to the fact that there is a man in their midst who is worth looking after. The High Commissioner states that two funds have now been established in England—the one for buying the laboratory in Geneva, and the other for carrying on the bovine experiment at Crewe. Mr Spahlinger, he states, is expected to. come over to England at anv time.