1923

Cancer campaign

After tuberculosis, cancer takes the greatest toll on human life in these islands. A serous effort is about to be made in England to grapple with the disease and an appeal has been issued for £1,000,000 to be expended in research work.

Medical men are optimistic enough to hope that as a result of research it will be possible, sooner or later, to prevent and cure the disease.

In Ireland, outside Dublin, little has been done to help in the campaign against cancer. It is a peculiarity of some people that, in this matter of the cure and prevention of disease, they adopt an attitude of indifference. They accept preventable disease as something inevitable and with the resignation of the fatalist.

This attitude of mind and the utter disregard for the ordinary laws of sanitation made Ireland in the past a hotbed of disease. The man who shifted the spittoon fearing that he would soil it with a tobacco spit is still with us.

Enlightenment is, however, coming slowly but surely. In this fight against cancer, Ireland can join hands with the sister isle in the common cause of humanity. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the appeals made to hospital committees like those in Galway and other parts of Ireland for financial help will not fall on deaf ears.

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