DEATHS FROM CANCER.
CREMATION OF VICTIMS. ADVOCACY BY MEDICAL V/RITER. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 11. A writer in the British Medical Journal advocates tho 'cremation of all persons who dio of cancer. He argues that, as cancer is caused by a germ which passes through a porcelain filter, it would surely pass through any soil and percolate downwards until deep water was contaminated.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19094, 12 August 1925, Page 13
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69DEATHS FROM CANCER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19094, 12 August 1925, Page 13
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