CANCER RESEARCH.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17697, 25 January 1918, Page 4

CANCER RESEARCH.

THE MINISTER’S VIEWS. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, January 24. The Minister of Public Health, referring to the proposal to establish a New Zealand research scholarship in connection with cancer, said that, without depreciating the possibilities of- Now Zealand students, it appeared to him that the establishing of a research in such a, hidden diseasi as cancer in a small country like this was not likely to attain tho value socured by the work being done in Britain, where so large a number of men of experience and high scientific attainments were studying the question. In New Zealand efforts had been , made to co-ordinato the public health service with the British Medical Association, and some time) ago a : equest was made to the association to devote attention to the preparation of material for publication dealing with cancer in New Zealand. Tho Department undertook that all tissues and other chemical material forwarded by medical practitioners for pathological examination would be treated, by the Department. The Minister said that the death-rat© from tuberculosis in New Zealand had fallen from 16 per ten thousand of population in 1875 to 6i in 1915, and the death-rate from cancer had steadily risen from pev ten tliousniKl in 18 to 8.9 iu 1915.