RESEARCH WORK

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 58, 6 February 1928, Page 7

RESEARCH WORK

LINKING UP ORGANISATIONS. QUESTION OF VITAMINS. COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATION (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received February 6, 9.15. a.m. LONDON, Feb. 5. Following steady progress in linking up the research organisations in Britain with those in the Dominions and India, the Medical Research Council last year extended the. process to the colonies, protectorates and mandated territories. It is hoped that the result will bo a veritable imperial research service. Commenting on the subject, the council’s annual report points out that “there are probably more cases of tuberculosis and measles in the tropics than in England and those diseases may perhaps be better studied overseas than at home just as the control of a purely tropical disease may spring from clues discovered in some northern laboratory. It becomes clearer every year that medical science is one and indivisible whether in temperate or tropical climates ; consequently research should be done wherever the best '■ opportunity offers.”

In response to a request from the Empire Marketing Board, which is financing the work for five years, the council has arranged for a comprehensive investigation under the general direction of Profesosr Harden, of the Lister Institute into the vitamin contents of fruit, vegetables and dairy products and the effects of different methods of perservation and transport of these foods.

The council reviews at length the progress made towards artificial vitamin production and points out that the national needs of vitamins can be met from liver fat utilised with butter and margarine and in other ways. The home supply can readily be supplemented if necessary from Empire produce. It has been found that the vitamin content of the fat from imported New Zealand liver is the same as from the liver of home killed animals.—Australian Press Association and Sun cable.