RADIUM AND CANCER.
A QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT. - The Minister • for Public Health ;wia3 ' recently:; asked' by' Mr. R. AlWright, ■M.P., whether he was aware that certain cases of cancer had been cured in Sydney by; means'of radium.- treatment,. and, if - so, will bo instruct the Health Deport-' ment .to -'introduce - into - a;., sufficient- quantity of: radium' to allow ex-'-. periments- to .bo made. . In.. 1900, Mr,Wright pointed out,' - the; -total.. number >. of deaths - from;;cancer';in'--. New Zealand per: 10,000; personswas 5.G3. In 1909 the . , death-rate had risen, with 'slight- fluctua-:. tiotLs; to' 7.32. In liisreply.theMmistar says it is generally recognised by. medical men throughout.the Dominion that-there are considerable possibilities, as regards the radium treatment of cancer; but thia form of- treatraent is'essentially; one" which v should be in the hands'-"ofsocialists/-' Many , hospital , boards have appointed. . radiologisfe on the honorary staffs of: their . institutions, and the latter are' in touch with the central department. .. ..
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 940, 6 October 1910, Page 4
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152RADIUM AND CANCER. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 940, 6 October 1910, Page 4
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