RHEUMATISM'S TOLL
(Britisb Official Wireless.)
Research Planned in Briiain
RUGBY, NOV. 2. The Empire Rheumatism Council is plamiing seven years' rosearch into the icauses and treatment of rheumatism. Lord Horder, making this announceiment, said rheumatism, though oue of the oldest problems known, had Been gravely neglected. An investigation by the Ministry of Health in 1922 relating to persons under the National Health Insurance Act showed rheumatic disease was probably responsible for 16 per cent. of the total industrial morbidity in England and Wales, and that during the course of the year a'bout 372,600 insured persons sought medical advice because of some form of rheumatic disease. To that figure had to be added the many sufferers outside the insured class. When research had discovered causes, he added, that would mean not merely a curo but what was more important, preveution. They would investigate simultaneously existiug treatments and any new ones that gavo hope or promise. All problems ' in inf ection, biochemistry, diet, living and working 1 [conditions .would be probed, , ; 9
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 35, 4 November 1937, Page 9
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