CANCER RESEARCH.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16039, 25 January 1918, Page 4

CANCER RESEARCH.

STATEMENT BY 7 MINISTER. PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION. ' WELLINGTON, Jan. 24. The Minister of Public Health, referring to the proposal to establish a New Zealand lesearch scholarship An connection with cancer, said that, without depreciating the possibilities of research by New Zealand students, H ap> peared to him that the establishing of a research scholarship in such a hidden disease as cancer in a small country like this was not likely to attain the ’value secured by the work, being done in Britain; where so large a number of men of experience and high scientific attainments were studying the question. In Now Zealand efforts had been made to co-ordinate the public health service with tho British Medical Association, and some time ago a request was made to ike association to devoto attention to the preparation of material fqr a publication dealing with cancer in New Zealand. Tho department undertook that all tissues and other clinical material forwarded by medical practitioners for pathological examination would be treated by the department. The Minister said the death-rate from tuberculosis in New Zealand had fallen from 16 per 10,000 of a population in 1875, to 6j in 1913, and the death-rate from cancer had steadily risen from 2 per 10,000 in I&7S to 8.9 in 1918.