EMPIRE RESEARCH

Evening Star, Issue 19783, 6 February 1928, Page 5

EMPIRE RESEARCH

A FORWARD MOVEMENT DISEASE. AND FOOD PROBLEMS UNDER STUDY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, February 5. (Received February 6, at noon.) Following steady progress in linking up the research organisations in Britain with tiose 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 pn this subject, the council, in its annual report, points out that there are probably more cases of tuberculosis and measles in the tropics than there are in England, and those diseases may, perhaps, be better studied overseas than at home. Just as control of purely tropical disease may spring from clues discovered in some northern laboratory, it becomes clearer every year that medical science is one and indivisible, whether in temperate or tropical climates; consequently research should bo done wherever the best opportunity offers.

In response to a request from the Empire Marketing Board, which is financing tho work for five years, the council has arranged a comprehensive investigation under the general direction of Professor Harden, of the Lister Institute, into the vitamin contents of fruit, vegetable, and dairy products, and the effects of tbp different methods of preservation and transport of these foods.

The council lengthily reviews the progress towards artificial vitamin production, and points out that the national needs of vitamin can be met from liver fat utilised with butter and margarine, and in other ways. The home supply could readily he supplemented if necessary from Empire produce. It has been found that the vitamin content of fat from imported New Zealand liver is the same as from the liver of homekilled animals.—A. and N.Z. and ‘Sun’ Cable. .