RADIUM'S POWER.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3383, 12 January 1920, Page 3

RADIUM'S POWER.

‘ls TONS LEAD SAFE FOR A FEW . GRAMMES.: With a Government grant of £SO; |ooo a year, the British Medical Relsearch Committee is doing‘an enormous amount of Work. The report for [the ‘year ended September 30 show that investigations are in progress regard_ ing tuberculosis-, typhoid fever, Spot_ ‘ted fever, influenza, pneumonia, dyg-en'tel-y, diseases of the heart, I~eSph.a_ tory system, nel'Vous system‘ and many other distinctive maladies, as Well as into childlife. nutrition, V and‘ growth, industrial fatigue, and medical I problems of flying. ‘ A compreiié'nsive investigations of‘ influenza has‘ been carried out at we London, St. Thomas’-s. St_ Mary’s, anai other hospitals. as Well as in Liver-3 ‘pool, Manchester, Edinfiurgh. Dublin,‘ and Belfast. “ “The results obtained! by Dr W. .I‘. Wilson, of Belfast, point} decidedly towards the Pfeiffer Ba-;-illusi |as a causative agent,” the report'‘'sa_vs. ‘ ‘As: a result of studies of. photo-syn-, theses “it has been found that the sbcalled “active ozone’ of fresh coun. try air is’ not ozone, but nitrogen peroxide.” This was found in :moth.3r inquiry to be a preservative against influenza when inhaled. and methods ha.ve been devised for its safe use as a. preventive of common infections. “The Committee have had in View the ea:-I_v organ'isati'on of \Xride.spre:id inquiry into the chief factors contri-bu-ting to infant .mortz=.lity. Much of the present high Inort;'llity is obvir)nsl'y due to preventible causes.” Radio-therapy is being invesi;l‘§':l‘Cv‘-‘.'T at the Middlesex Hospital ‘-vi‘r,!l a quantity of radium ten times as ,»:u-at as any amouiit previously av:iil:—i_‘oie for similar work. It is only a few grammes which the Ministry oi? .Z\lum~ tions collected from gun—sights and other instruments of war, but so potent is i.t that a lead safe -weig-;'l1i:;».",r 1% tons, had to be made to colit:lin ‘ll.