RADIUM TREATMENT.

Otago Witness, Issue 3742, 1 December 1925, Page 36

RADIUM TREATMENT.

ESSENTIAL TO HOSPITALS. fUBCHASE BY AUCKLAND BOARD. (FbOU Odb Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, November 24. “There is no doubt that radium is very rah used in all the principal hospitals at cane—in fact, no hoenital is considered oroughly equipped unless it has a comete radium apparatus,” said Dr C. E. faguire,- medical superintendent of the mddand Hospital, who returned to-day rom England. One of his principal commissions was to purchase, on behalf of the lospital Board, a supply of radium. He enured four grains, and that cost £SOOO. kfefl for the proper keeping of radium •▼e to be prepared before it is sent out rom London and thn apparatus is now m the way. It is hoped to have the •dium here about the beginning of next ear. Dr iaguiro said there was no doubt xmt the standing of radium in the hisftal world at Home, and his invesfcigalons had convinced him that the thing was ply n its infancy. The superintendent of ho Radium Institute, who was making a our of the world, hoped to bo in New lealand earlv next year, and would be able o advise fully as to whut steps should be iken to develop radium treatment. “Re [urn is one of the great means we ave to-day of alleviating the conditions l oanoer, and it iR also used in many feher jisenacs,” said Dr Maguire. “The lere foot that some time ago in New •aland somebody discounted radium in ke treatment of the disease does not affect ie matter in the slightest. Such dinounting criticism has been shown to be Luite erroneous, and. ns I say, all modern tofpltala have their radium equipment and ge M mrtensively th re is no doubt that Iflfnai has a great t'*»*p before it.**