RESEARCH

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 6 February 1928, Page 5

RESEARCH

EMPIRE ORGANISATION

EXTENSION OF LINKING UP PROCESS

"VERITABLE IMPERIAL SERVICE"

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(Received 6th Feb.. 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, ,sth Feb.

Following steady progress in linking up research organisations in Britain with those in the Dominions and India, the Medical Research Council last year extended the process to colonics, protectorates, and mandated territories. It is hoped that the result will be a veritable. Imperial research service. Commenting on the subject, the council in its annual report points- out that there is probably more tuberculosis and measles m the tropics than in England, and those diseases may perhaps be better studied overseas than at home; just as tho 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 lesearch should be done wherever the best opportunity offers.

VITAMIN INVESTIGATION In response to a request from' the Empire Marketing Board,, . which ( is financing the work for five years, the council has arranged a comprehensive investigation under the general direction of Professor Harden of the Lister Institute, into the vitamin contents of fruit, vegetables and dairy products, and the effects of the different methods of preservation and transport of tV<¥ foods. The cooncil lengthily reviews the progress toward? artificial vitamin production, and points out that the national needs of vitamin 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 fat from imported New Zealand liver is the fame as from the liver of home killed animals.