MEDICAL RESEARCH WORK

Taranaki Daily News, 7 February 1928, Page 7

MEDICAL RESEARCH WORK

LINKING UP ORGANISATION WORK. TO BECOME IMPERIAL VITALISES AND TRANSPORT By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. A.P.A. and Sun. London, Feb. 5. Following steady progress in the linking up of research organisations in Britain with those in the Dominions and India, the Medical Research Council last year extended the process to the colonies, 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 there are probably more tuberculosis and measles in the tropics than in England, and that those diseases may, perhaps, be better studied Overseas than at Home, just as the control of a purely tropical disease may spring from clues discovered in sonie northern laboratory. It becomes dearer every year that medical science is one and indivisible, whether in temperate or tropical climates; consequently research should be done wherever the best opportunity offers. In response to a request from the Empire Marketing Board, which is financing the work for five years, the council has arranged for a comprehensive investigation under the general direction of Professor Harden, of the Lister Institute, into the vitamin content of fruit, vegetables and dairy products, and the effects of different methods of preservation and transport of these foods. The council lengthily reviews the progress towards artificial vitamin production, and points out that national needs of vitamin can be met from liver fat utilised with butter or margarine, or 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 liter is the same as from the liver of Home-killed animals.