Medicine: Cancer, Beware!: Cancer, Beware!

The New York City Department of Public Welfare opened the first municipal cancer clinic in the U.S.

It is housed in the New York City Cancer Institute and is equipped with enough radium to cure 2.000 people, a room for fluoroscopy, a 200,000-volt apparatus for deep therapy, many other cancer-curing devices.

The clinic is particularly for those people who cannot go to private hospitals, and any impecunious person who suspects that he has cancer has but to drop in for free treatment. As far as resources are concerned, the...

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