CANCER REASEARCH IN N. Z.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11444, 25 January 1918, Page 4

CANCER REASEARCH IN N. Z.

(Per Proas Asaosiatlcm.) Wellington, Jan. 21. The Minister for Public Health, referring to a proposal to establish a New Zealand research scholarship iu connection with cancer, said that, without depreciating the possibilities for New Zealand students, it appeared to him that the establishing of a research in such a hidden disease as cancer iu a small country like this was not likely to attain the value which would be secured by the work being done iu Britain, where so largo a number of men of experience and hign scientific attainments wore studying the cpiestion. In Now Zealand efforts had been made tp co-ordinate the Public Health service with the British Medical Association, and some time ago a |rcqnest was made to the Association to devote attention to the preparation of material for publication dealing with cancer' in New Zealand. The Department undertook that all tissues and other clinical material forwarded by medical practitioners for pathological examination would bo treated by the Department. The Minister said Hie death-rate from tuberculosis in New Zealand had fallen from 30 per ten thousand of the population in 1875 to OK hi 1015, and the death-rate from cancer had steadily risen from 3 per ton thousand in 1875 to 8.9 iu 1915.