RADIUM.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1925, Page 4

RADIUM.

AX EKSF.X'ITAL FOR HOSPITALS. ACCKLAXI), Xov. L‘-l. " I here is no <!on)>|, that radium is eery mud) used in all the prinepal hospitals at Home; in I’act no hospital is considered thoroughly equipped unless it has a complete radium apparatus,” said l)r C. K. Maguire, Medical Superintendent of Auckland Hospital, who returned h.v the Mahana this afternoon from an interesting trip to the Old Country. Hr Maguire, who looks very well after his seven months' travelling, has inspected a number of leading hospitals and is embodying the inform.) I ion he gained in a comprehensive report to t ho Auckland Hospital Board. One of the doctor's principal commissions when abroad was to purchase on behalf of ihe hoard a supply of radium, fie secured four grains and that costs JBoCOO. The safes for the proper keeping of the radium have to he prepared before it is sent out from London and the apparatus is now on the way anil it i> hoped to have the radium here about the beginning of the year. Dr Maguire's remark was in answer to a query as in i lie present standing ol radium, the ilnrior being reminded of —une of the i i ifieism of a noted specialist from the Old Country. Dr Maguire -aid there was no doubt about the standing of radium in the hospital world at Home, and his investigations convinced him that the thing was only in its rommeneemeiit. The Superintendent of the Radium Institute. who was making a tour of the world, hoped to he in Auckland in March and would he aide to advise the I man I fully as to wluu steps should he taken to develop ratTiutn treatment. ‘‘Radium is one of the great means we have to-day nf alleviating conditions in cancer, and iL is also used in many other diseases,” said Dr Maguire. "The mere fact that some time ago in Auckland somebody discounted radium in the treatment of disease does not affect the matter in the slightest. Such discounting criticism has lieen shown to he quite erroneous and. as X say. all modern hospitals have their radium equipment and use it extensively. There is no doubt that radium has a great future before it.”