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HIATUTTNEITEAEL T TT Te iesns snsine io i n en ies in amenn n n n in T 10 i WBA TD PR TT i icimenrmm ntec s s n i oess cmd tTanisr n in N e on 'FOR PROVINCE _ | lien e se e tresteae . | Dr. Duncan of London Sees Postwar Task of Planning Medical Help ' T.B. DEATHS FEWER Irrespective of its source, a cancer cure will be accepted by physicians, Dr. A. S. Duncan (Lib., London) yesterday declared in the Queen's Park budget dobate when he de-- "Duckworth Raps High Taxation. nied, what he said was a widely Dr. Duncan was in disagreement held opinion, that the medical pro-- with William Duckworth (Cons,, fession was hostile to cancer re-- Toronto--Dovercourt), on the effect search by laymen of Hepburn Administration policies y P # * upon municipal tax rates. Mr.} 'The medical profession has long Duckworth claimed the 1937 income | awaited a cure for this disease," tax legislation took away 82500000: § t said the member. "I would not as-- from Toronto and returned the city sociate myself with any organiza-- only about $800,000. He attributed tion which would stand in the way | the tax rate increases from 34.15 to and I know that a cure will be 35.70 between 1935 and 1937, to the accepted wherever it comes from." loss in income tax. The London Dr. Duncan, in his review of the member argued that subsidies and Government's health program, paid acceptance of old age pensions and tribute to the support given by mothers' allowances costs, together Premior HMHepburn and the admin-- with liberal relief and highways istration by Hon. Harold J. Kirby policies had cut the municipal and his department heads. "I know burden. when it comes to expenditures for Mr. Duckworth charged "this keeping people well the Prime Min-- Government has always been able ister is all for it," said Dr. Duncan. to show a surplus because they .Ol cancer cures and the investiga-- have taxed the people more than tions by the Ontario Cancer Com-- previous Governments and have mission, Dr. Duncan said the de-- given them less for their money." partment bore a serious responsi-- During the past five years, the bility to see that people are pro-- Government _ collected _ $35.600,000 tected from "unscrupulous individ-- more than the previous Govern-- uals." He predicted that after the ment collected in the five years war the task of reorganizing medi-- preceding "and still the debt of cal services for the benefit of low' the Province has increased more income groups would fall upon the than $114,000,000." f profession and the department. For the same two comparative The Government's policy in fight-- 'fiveq'ear periods, Hepburn adm.inis- ing tuberculosis has brought the tration collections in corporations' Ontario death rate far below that| tax were $24,217,915 higher than of any other Province "and it's still | those of the Conservative regime going down." He believed the de--| and gasoline tax collections were partment was bringing effective $32,298,164 higher. control _ measures on _ venereal| "Since 1934 the cost of foodstuffs diseases. More and more, under ad--. has risen 14 per cent because of the vanced treatment policies, insulin high taxes on processing plants," he shock and fever cabinets, patients: said. "That is the reason that the in the mental hospitals are being | farmer gets little more to'f his returned to civil life. | produce than he did in 1934. On behalf of the University o(' He suggested the $12,600,000 §_ur- Western Ontario he appealed lor! plus shoqld be devoted to reducing higher grants. Valuable scientific| / the gascline tax by three cents and war work is being performed ther | the corporation tax by one per cent he said C and that income tax collect_lon | * l s bout should revert to the municipalities.