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By JOIIN TRACY Canadian Press sun Writer

HONEY HARBOR. Ont. (CPi— A United states scientist says there is no basis for any claim that cig- aret smoking is the main cause of lung cancer. He linked the in- creasing frequency of the disease with air pollution.

Dr. W. C. Huper of the National Cancer Institute at Bethesda. Md. aid Thursday the "pattern exhib- tcd by lung cancers for different regions and population groups tonforrns more closely with that Ihown by industrial development than with one which might be ex- pected as the result of carcinogenic (cancer-causing) action of a single Invlronmental factor. such as cig- aret smoking."

I-Ie delivered a paper on en.viron- mental aspects of lung cancer at the Canadian Cancer Research Conference. During a discussion period he said:

"I think the evidence about eig- aret smoking and lung cancer does not exclude the possibility of a re- lation between smoking and lung cancer. But. if you take the total evidence. I don't think there is any basis for the claim thnt cigaret smoking is the main cause of lung cancer. That woiili-l be stretching the evidence to the breaking point."

-Dr. A. J. Phillips of 'l"oronto statistician with the National Can- cer Institute of Canada. said his data indicated a definite increase in male deaths due to lung cancer in Canada.

He said deaths among both sexes was .2 per cent of all death»: in i931. For 1952 the figure had risen to 1.2 per cent.

Dr. Phillips. who did not deal with possible causes. said the United Kingdom. the U, S. and Denmark had reported increases in lung cancer deaths equal to or greater than those in Canada.

A Quebec gynaecoiogist, Dr. L F. Gagnon. said he found the in- cidence of lung cancer amoria nuns. "who definitely don't smoke.‘ was about the same as for the lav population. In 20 years of research

lawyer Missing Second Time In Court Case

MONTREAL. (CP\—Lucien Gag- non. 45-year-old Montreal la\\'.\'C2' and city (‘0i.lilClII0l‘, today for lht second lll‘l‘i° failed to appear in

- Court of Queeifs Bench on charges

of receiving 321.000 worth 0! SOV- ernmcnt stamps.

Mr. JIISIICF Fi':iiiro'.s Caron or- dered r‘.:ignon's hail of $5.000 con- Iiscatrrl. A search will be started in Canada and the United St,at.es for the lawyer, last reported in New York.

Representing the Crown was Noel Dorlon. special prosecutor, who was assisted l-iv three other lavryers The court was told that Rosalre Font.-iinr~. merlico-legal ex- pert. and Maurice Fnrtin. chirf inspector for the Canadian post of- fice department. had been unable to find (‘iagnon in New York.

A bench \\2iil'Rll[ for Gagnon via: issued last Monday when he failrzi to appear for his scheduled trial His wife told the court her hus- band \\‘a.< ill in New York and pro- duced doctors‘ certificates.

Later. i\‘Ir.K. Marc Larasse. Gag- non's sis‘r:r. said he had been ill for set-rrol weeks from a nervous and intestinal trouble and his con- dition had become so serious he was admitted to a New York Hos-

. l’-‘oniaine, whose testimony was f‘0l"l‘fll'I‘iOl‘iiiE(‘I by .\lr. Fortin said he had made contact with Dr Irving S. Baum. a New York doctor who had signed a certificate which was produced in court last Mon- riav.

Dr. Baum said he hail brrn railed to trrnt a Mr. Gagnon who rom- plained of pain. the witness testi- fied. Dr. Baum had administered a "light sedative."

The court was told that Dr. Fon- taine and Mr_ l-‘ortin —assisted by an investigator assigned by Next York aiithorities — could not find Gagnon in any of the New York I1nnniiai.I. }

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he had noted In cases of cancer among nuns and eight of these involved lung cancer.

Dr. Hueper said investigators have found the local incidence rates of lung cancer in England and Wales during 1921. i039. 1046 and 1948 disclosed a relationship to air pollution through smoke from chimneys in built~up areas.

There was evidence that some metals and metal compounds when inhaled as dust. fumes or mist are capable of producing respirat- ory cancers. He mentioned indus- tries involving nickel chromates. asbestos. arsenic and petroleum as among those where workers were exposed in occupational risk of lung cancer.

No unusual frequency of respir- atory cancers had been observed. however. among workers at the Sudburv, 0nt.. nickel-ore mines or srnelters in Canada. Nor was therc i .v evidence of excessive lung can- scr incidence among coal miners.

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(')ni.. I(‘P\~l’esti- i-ides such as DDT are here. to stay and the problem now is to learn how to live with them. W. L. B-ll. industrial toxicologist uith the health department. said ThIlT5(ifi)'.

Noting that the yearly sale of pest eliniinriting siibsttim-es in Canadri amounts to $50.000.()0il. he said the agriculture department estimates that a return of 810 in increased crops is realized for each dollar spent on pesticides.

"'l‘he_v are here to stay and is our task as health officials to learn how to live with them." he said in a speech prepared for de- livery to the 20th anniversary conference of the Canadian In- stitute of Sanitary Inspectors.

The main problem of pesticities runs in determining their effort on humans and In finding antidotes to them. This was done largely through experiments on rats and rabbits in the health departmr-nt's 0('(‘ilpHtiUIlBI health laboratory.

Through t-.\perinienis with DDT on rats. the laboratory had found that it was the best antidote for a nerve gas. The DDT. howe\'ei'. to be effective against the nerve gas. had to be administered first.

"The practical value of the dis- cn\'r\r)‘. if humans are the same as rats." Mr. Ball said. "is that if we know we were to be exposed to a nerve gas, we could pre- trmt ourselves with DDT and withstand seven times as much of the former."

Pi'ohnhI.\' the. most draniaiir e.\- nniple of the contribution of pesti- rides to the control of disease wet! the success of DDT in eradi- cating malaria.

"In 1945 there were (00,000 cases of malaria in italy \\'lIh 380 deaths. In Greere during the per- iod i940-45 there were an aver- age of 4.000 deaths a year from this mosquito-borne disease.

"Shortl)‘ after 1945 vvirlesprearl use of DDT for house spraying was started and In 195i only 390 cases of malaria, with no death. were reported in Italy. in Greece the same year only seven deaths were attributed to malaria."

RIVERDALE - CHURCHILL W. I.

The monthly meeting. of Riverdale - Churchill W. I. was] held at the home of Mrs. Gariieldi Macl~“adyen on June 2. One new‘ member was welcomed.

Plans were made for a picnic at school closing. Correspondence was read including a letter from Miss Jean MacGaughe_v regarding the school report; Women's Voluntary Service, Mont- real. regarding the knitting of squares to make blankets for the

aitreed that 35 be given the Salva- tion Army.

The next meeting is to be held at thb home of Mrs. Kelsie Bush- anan and roll call is in be answer. ed with "it two minute speech or a line of 256. |

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NORTH BAY. Ont. (CF) —— Hon. Welland Stewart Gemmell. 43. Sud- bury district merchant who di- rected the use and protection of Ont:irio‘s timbcrinnds as provincial minister of lands and forests for the last two years. died Friday in his hotel room.

The big, broad-shouldered north- nner who formerly served as on- tarlo mines minister was stricken 10 minutes after he completed a luncheon address to a regional con- ference of the Canadian Institute of Forestry.

His death was attributed to a heart seizure.

He had been scheduled to open a new chief ranger's headquarters at Trout Lake. three miles from North Bay. later in the afternoon. Later. the plans for the opening ceremony were cancelled.

After finishing his speech here. Mr. Gemmell went immediately to

his hotel suite to await the trip to Trout Lake. IN POOR HEALTH

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down. complaining that he felt un- well. Two doctors were called. but. by the time they arrived. Mr. Gem- mell was dead. He had been in‘ poor health for several months. !

He gained his first political ex- perience its a township reeve in‘ the Sudbury district. vainly sought. a Commons seat in the general election of 1945 but won election

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VANCOUVIR. (CP)—'l'lae funtly doctor and e. country-wide sickness survey held the spotlight at the Canadian Medical Association eon- ventlon here A ureday.

Delegates attending the annual gathering heard Canada's deputy minister of health. 0. D. W. Cam- eron. disclose results of a survey showing Canadians spent about $875,000,000 annually on health care.

Delegetea took a break from the exhausting round of convention ac- tivity Thursday night by going on 3 twilight cruise. .

The convention winds up today with delivery of i2 technical pap- ers and a. discussion of medicine in the armed forces.

Dr. Cameron called the Cana- dian siekneae survey conducted in 1060-51 "most complete la!orm- atlon on what medical practice in this country is achieving."

Information collected will allow analyses of some 02 diseases and condition by the Dominion burenu of statistics. he continued. How- ever preliminary analysis showed "the common cold and influenza represented 45 per cent of the total of all conditions."

The deputy minister said the sur- vey sliowed "striking" regional variations in family health expend- itures and in the ratio of doctors‘ calls to home, office and hospital

“British Columbia families spent an average of 1100 each for all health items.“ he said. “Quebec, Ontario, the Prairies and the Mari- tlmes spent succeuively smaller amounts. Quebec families reported the highest per family expenditures

ifor both prescribed and non-pres-

cribed drugs,”

The survey found little variation across the country in the average of 2.200 home and office calls pro- vided per physician. -

But in Quebec 45 per cent of the calls were made to the home compared to 18 per cent in British Columbia. Home calls in the Mari- times totalled 31 per cent to only

l6 per cent on the Prairies.

Mr. Cameron said the lower ra- tio of non-hospital calls in western Canada "may be due in part to the more favorable bed ratios and the high proportion of the popu- latlon_ covered for some type of hospital insurance.

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Survey Indicates

Routiey. CMA president-eiect and consultant general of the World Medical Association.

The college is designed to aid general practitioners in keeping abreast of rapid developments ‘in the medical field. Headquarters will be in Toronto.

NEW LONDON WJ.

Mrs. Morton Adams entertained New London W.I. on June 8. Six- teen inembere answered roll clll by naming their favorite vegetable.

Mra. Leigh Maelwen and Mrs. John Burgoyne were appointed de- legates to the W. 1. Convention. Mrs. William Bell invited the W. I. to hold a Strawberry and Ice Cream Festival on her lawn again this year. A committee was‘ ap- polnted as follows: Mrs. Morton Adams. Mrs. John Burgoyne. Mrs. James Cole. Miss Elva Mscnlllster. Mrs. William Macxay and Mrs. Oscar Macxay. Ten dollars was voted for the school closing prizes. The next meeting will be held at

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