MEDICAL RESEARCH AN IMPERIAL SERVICE VITAMIN PRODUCTION

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 271, 6 February 1928, Page 9

MEDICAL RESEARCH

AN IMPERIAL SERVICE

VITAMIN PRODUCTION

By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Sunday. Following steady progress in linking the research organisations of Great Britain with those of the Dominions and India, the medical Research Council last year extended its progress to the colonies, protectorates and mandated territories. It is hoped that the result will be a veritable imperial research service. Commenting on this the council’s annual report points out that there is probably more tuberculosis and measles in the tropics than in England. Those diseases perhaps are better studied overseas than at Home, just as the control of a purely tropical disease may spring from clues discovered at Home. It becomes clearer every year that medical science is one and indivisible, whether in temperate or tropical climates, consequently research should be done wherever there is t,he best opportunity.

VITAMINES FROM NEW ZEALAND In response to a request from the Empire Marketing Board, which is financing the 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 content of fruit, vegetables and dairy products, and the effects of the different methods of their preservation and transport. .. .. The council reviews at length the progress toward artificial vitamin production and points out that the national needs of Vitamin A can be met from liver fat utilised with butter and margarine. Other ways of home supply can he readily 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 that from the liver of Home-killed animals. A. and N.Z.Sun.