FIGHTING CANCER.
MIDESPREAD CAMPAIGN
LONDON, May 31. The cancer campaign is attracting the greatest attention. The point stressed is that the whole Empire should concentrate on the problem of dealing with this scourge, which causes one in every seven deaths of persons oyer 30 m Great Britain. The appeal is signed by Lord Dawson, Sir John Bland-Sufton and other leading physicians, surgeons, scientists and bankers, and asks the public of the United Kingdom and tho Dominions for funds for organising systematic research _ and treatment throughout tho Empire on a scale hitherto impossible. There will be a scries of working committees, embracing medicine, surgery, pathology and so forth, with an executive acting as a clearing'house. The Red Cross Society lias placed its organisation at tho disposal of tho campaign, a generous donor paying the preliminary expenses.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 722, 2 June 1923, Page 12
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