CURE FOR T.B.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 300, 4 December 1929, Page 7

CURE FOR T.B.

AUCKLAND CLERGYMAN’S CLAIM SCORES OF CASES TREATED SUCCESSFULLY. ’ MAKES THE MEDICINE HTMSEBP Auckland, Dee. 4. Claiming to have discovered a medf| cine which, he says, has cured scores of cases of tuberculosis, an Auckland clergyman, the Bev. Edward Ward, has obtained the permission of Archbishop Averill to distribute the eompoun 1 to sufferers anywhere at practically no cost. Mr Ward says that the medicine has effected so many cures in the past three years that there can be no question of its efficaciousness in the majority of causes. It is being used, he says, with great success by members of the B.M.A. who practice among the Maoris. He does not intend to disclose the recipe, which would be useless to a lay person unskilled in dispensing. Mr. Ward is a qualified pharmacist and makes up the medicine himself. LOWEST T.B. DEATH RATH THE WOBLD. A NEW ZEALAND’S HAPPY POSITION. The fact that New Zealand enjoys the lowest T.B. death rate in the world, was referred to by Dr. T. H. A. Valintine (Director • General of Health) at the conference or North Island Hospital Board delegates in Palmerston North last evening. “It is a record of which we may well be proud,” stated the Director. In the North Island, the death rate in 1919 was 4.88 per 1000 and in 1926 it had fallen to 3.76. In the Routh Island, it was 5.62 in 1919, and had fallen to 4.66 in 1926. Despite the fact that the South Island had four sanatoria to the North Island’s two, the decrease in the North was greater. It was very gratifying to learn that with just the two buildings, a greater reduction had been achieved than in the Sooth, which had many more beds for the treatment of T.B. than the North Island. For a population of 935,000, thp North Island had 236 beds for patients, whereas in the South Island, there were 381 beds for a population of 528,000. Tuberculosis had declined very materially in the Dominion and the work of hospital boards had eontributed to bring about this very happy state of affairs. The good work had to be cam tied on and boards should not rest content with an apparent victory. They had still to fight a virulent foe and with the co-operation of boards, a great deal more could be done than in the past.