NOTED SCIENTIST DIES

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 31 October 1933, Page 5

NOTED SCIENTIST DIES

PASSING OF DR. CALMETTE. TUBER C TJIvO KES E-ESE AR'CTR ■Utiited Frets Awciatinn—By Electric. Telegraph Copyright. 1 PARIS, Odt. 29. The death has occurred of Dr. Leon Calmette, sub-director of the Pasteur Institute since 1917 and discoverer of the Calmette vaccination treatment for the prevention of tuberculosis. Dr. Calmete was bom at Nicfe in 1863 and educated at Brest and Paris. He became a Doctor of Medicine at Paris in 1886. and after naval and colonial service became first director of the Pasteur Institute, Saigon (Indochina). After serving in the Lille in-stitutev-he was appointed to the Paris institute. He has written extensively on scientific subjects. Dr, Calmette’s death followed an operation for an *internal complaint. His serum, known as 8.C.G., claims to immunise newly-born- infants from tuberculosis, and millions of babies in Europe have thus far been treated. German 1 experts declare that the tragedy in which the deaths of German children occurred at Lubeck in August, 3 932, was not Dr. Calmette’s fault, but that the serum cultures had been mixed.

Dr. Calmette was born in the same year and died on the same nay as M. Paiuleve, and both had been professors at Lille University.