TO COMBAT CANCER

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11662, 29 October 1923, Page 8

TO COMBAT CANCER

RADIUM APPEAL CAMPAIGN. MEDICAL MEN’S SUPPORT. The general committee in charge of the radium appeal campaign has decided that the appeal, which by that time will carry a list of influential signatures, i 9 to be launched within a week or so. The whole-hearted support of the British Medical Association, through its New Zealand Organisations, is assured; and, given the practical sympathy of the public, it ia hoped that the campaign will prove most successful. The objective is the collection of £IO,OOO (uet) in order to establish at Wellington Hospital a radium depart ment, for the benefit of people living within a practicable radius of Wellington. All people between a line from New Plymouth to Napier (via Taumarunui), and the southern boundaries of Marlborough and Nelson provinces, should he in a position to share this benefit. For them, treatment from the radium department at Wellington is reasonably convenient, and a visit to Wellington is not beyond practical possibility, but a visit to Dunedin, the present centre of radium treatment, is lengthy, costly, and for many sufferers is of the character of a pilgrimage. When the campaign is launched, leading citizens will be waited on by members of the committee with a view to giving the radium appeal a start commensurate financially with it s medical merits and its social-economic importance as an advance along the line of community welfare. Steps will also be taken to spread the campaign far and wide through the whole of the district concerned. Tho general committee- is especially gratified by the evidences cf the sup--1 «>rt of the medical profession. Thia support is taking an active form. Hie educating of the public will be greatly helped bv such lectures as that which will be delivered on Tuesday evening by Dr Hector, who will speak on “Cancer,” with illustrative slides, under the auspices of tho Red Cross Association. Sums of money are already coming in to the general committee, both from the city and from the country, and will he acknowledged publicly at a later date. Information can be obtained on application to the secretary, Mr O. Mitchell, Exchange Buildings, Lambton quay.