Claims to Cure Scourges of Man

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 233, 21 December 1927, Page 16

Claims to Cure Scourges of Man

AUCKLANDER’S REQUEST HOSPITAL BOARD’S ATTITUDE Claiming that he could cure cancer and tuberculosis, Mr. T. J. Hood recently wrote to the Auckland Hospital Board asking if he might be allowed to treat the cases which had been pronounced incurable by the hospital doctors. The board decided that Mr. Hood would have to interview the honorary medical staff and state his claims. Yesterday the staff reported that it had interviewed Mr. Hood and that he had given no definite evidence of a cure. Under the circumstances the staff could not recommend that he should be Allowed to try out his methods. * '

“We would be only too delighted if Mr. Hood could offer anything in the way of a cure or a supposed cure, and he would be given every opportunity,** said the chairman, Mr. William Wallace. “I am sure the honorary staff would go into his claims.’* He said that he was confident that if the British Government had thought Mr. Spahlinger had found a cure for the scourge it would have done everything possible and spent money on it. However, Dr. Valintine had reported that a New Zealander had shown evidence of the disease after three and a-half years’ treatment under Spahlinger. “It is unfortunate,” he continued, “and we can only go on hoping. We thought radium would cure all diseases, but we have been disappointed. It is thought that the medical profession is up against this kind of thing, but I am sure that the medical men will be only too pleased to give every assistance.”