MEDICAL RESEARCH
REASONS FOR AN INSTITUTE (Unitoil Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Tn reply to the Premier's request' for the reasons for a medical research institute and how the monev will be expended, the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association has forwarded a reply. It urges that a "wait and see" policy to escape the cost of investigation on our own account is selfish and unsound, as no country would make advances if it left the work to. others. New Zealand has problems of its own to solve, some peculiar to this country and the Pacific, ft is pointed out, for instance, that 87 per cent, of the school children have been found to have a defect of some kind and thai during the war only 43 of every ICO men examined could be accepted. In the opinion of the Association this alone l is enough to confirm the demand for an institute of preventive medicine, but there are others. A list of 18 directions is given in which research should be made. Among them are: Diphtheria which has lately become an epidemic in New Zealand, and why, the food problem, goitre, tuberculosis, diabetes, child welfare, maternal mortality, disorders, and cancer.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 26 June 1926, Page 6
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203MEDICAL RESEARCH Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 26 June 1926, Page 6
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