NO CURE YET

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 434, 16 August 1928, Page 11

NO CURE YET

CANCER RESEARCH TUBERCULOSIS ON DECLINE Though a tremendous amount of cancer research is going on in England and abroad, there seems little hope of any great discoveries leading to a cure in the near future, according to Dr. W. Gilmour, pathologist of Auckland Hospital, who has returned after a nine months’ trip. One interesting point was that the results of research that had been carried on in the Lister Institute, London, had not yet been divulged. A lead compound treatment had emanated from Liverpool, but had not met with the success anticipated. In the meantime, treatment was divided among surgery, radium and X-rays. HIGHER STANDARD There was a higher standard of living in England to-day than for some years past. Tuberculosis was on the decline in spite of unemployment. Dr. Gilmour attributed this to greater facilities for isolating the infected; increased facilities for treatment at dispensaries and in sanatoria; generally improved housing and working conditions; and, possibly, better feeding. Aberdeen was ahead of other parts of the United Kingdom in the inoculation against diphtheria and scarlet fever The health authorities and the people of the city seem tremendously keen on it, and so far there has not been a single mishap, while good results are being obtained. The injection for diphtheria is being combined with the injection for scarlet fever. New Zealand hospitals, he, thought, were not behind those in Great Britain, and the standard of work done here was comparable with the Home standard. Dr. Gilmuur Avas obliged to rest for six months of his tour because of illhealth.