THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1906.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8209, 13 August 1906, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1906.

It really seems as if the o'vilised world is about to approach the scourge of disease in an enlightened campaign which would not have been deemed possible a few years ago. The atfcaok upon consumption is growing daily more and more widespread, and it is satisfactory to realise that New Zealand is not lagging behind in taking effective steps to stamp out tuberculosis. Mr J. Chamberlain is the latest ardent ad vooate of the establishment of sanatoria, and he has been making a fervent appeal to the wealthy classes to give their riohes in. this cause. At a meeting of the Natioual Association for the Establishment of Consumptive Sanatoria, he said that he had read that more than 100,000 persons perish every year in Great Britain from consumption alone. "If that is true,", he said, "it is evident that this disease claims more victims in the year than the deadliest campaign with whioh we are acquainted. And if we take into account the pain and suffering inflicted on people who aie the victims of its ravages, the misery whioh is attendant upon it, the cost of oaring for the sufferers, aod the loss to the community by the withdrawal of so many active workers from the field of labour, it [is not too much to say that there is no more serious scourge of humanity than that with whioh we have to deal." Mr Chamberlain admitted

that soience bail already done a good deal in coping with the disease, and he hoped that, from tbe discoveries made by distinguished men who were engaged in research, that very shortly, some specific remedy would be discovered. Cholera aud diphtheria, h® pointed out, no lunger had the terrors that once surrounded them, and it was quite legitimate to expeot that in the near future consumption would be shorn of many of its terrors. "I wish," he said, "I oould make my voice reaob some of those who have not merely too much wealth, but wealth beyond tbe dreams of avarioe. A great millionaire once came to me and asked me to advise him how to dispose of his wealth, but he did not take my aivice. Hut if others come to me under similar circumstances I shall still be uudisoouraged and shall urge upon them that there is no possible thing they oan do to bring greater hope and benefit to humanity than the further endowment of great schemes for medical research."