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MARCH as Need More Research. The Health Minister dealt with mental hygiene and stressed the need of more research in this field. In the past four years the depart- , ment had experimented and carried on research, with the aid of finan- cial assistance from the Rockefeller To FIGHT ll D Foundation, in the field of insulin, metrazol and electric shock therapy. q q While the results were not all that one might hope for, they were cn- Health Minister Kirby t'ouraging in that some types of . . patients were able to leave hospital, Declares Condition much sooner than they did under: . previous methods of treatment. , Grows More Serious "Last year. for the first time in a? decade, we had a decrease in the) The Ontario Health Department, total number of patients under, is setting aside $250,000 for its pro-1 treatment at the end ot the ycal'."i gram to combat venereal disease,' said 'MA. Kirby. , ti . . . .l Mr. Kirby touched on the success) which Is daily growllW, mort' achieved in the control of com-i serious," Ilealth Minister Harold municable disease, particularly} Kirby told the Legislature last tuberculosis and typhoid, l, night in a Budget debate address . 7N01.0nl~': has Ontario, for Athc| PVT . . first, time in history, moved into. The only contribution made hy the the position of having the lowest; Dominion Government toward On. tuberculosis death rate in Canada/ tario's health program since ho be. but there. are actually 264 fewer; came Minister in 1037 was $17.0th people dying of this liiseas.e m that Province each year than in 1937,"; worth of drugs toward a venereal said the Minister. l disease campaign, Mr. Kirby told Dealing with problems created by "This year, I understand, thc the war. Mr. Kirby said wartime the House. . conditions, especially the rapid Ottawa Government is to increase movement It l,",:,',"',:',")')','.,]),'),",.',',' its grants to $140,000, to be distrib- as m. the an /orce, ta f9"? (fl ll h . .u e l the introduction of new strains of uted among the Provinces, said .tr. t, . . .'. ii hth ,', Mr. Krrhv. "This is due to present- 91?Pnl1rl]'f with"); "m. Ct'la. . . . . . . , I have been requested to loan day conditions. And well the: our experts from the various health mi,rght. But the sum of $140,000 '...1-.'. .... , ___.. . T,' ' . . divisions lo advise or assist lll .dlv.iriot.l..anPnsr the "OHM" IS an. checking the inroads of disease in ir1sim1iiVa.nt sum compared P, out various parts of Canada," Mr. Kirby own yearly budget lll this field of said . . . . " '1 _ vill cost . gym?" proe",l 'rn l Helps War Effort. Mr. Kirby said the public had "This is not the only way in been misled into believing that the; which the Health Department has Federal Government was directing assisted the war effort," continued an all-out. venereal disease pro- Mr. Kirby. "in addition to grant- gram, while the truth of the mat- ing leave to 72 physicians, special- . ter was that the Ontario Depart-' ists in their respective fields. 9 den- ment of Ilealth was merely being lists. 48 nurses and 397 other subsidized by the "tritling" amount, personnel, we have from the out- of $17,000 worth of drugs. The vote' break of war placed at the disposal for the venereal disease branch last! of the armed forces the facilities of w year was $142000. It is understood; our chain of nine laboratories, in- that some of the increased money) creasing our facilities to keep pace will go toward hospitalization of. with the ever-increasing demand, so suiirrers. ' that a total of 36,000 examinations in the first year of the war has grown to 174,000 examinations last year, with a grand total of over ' 360,000 examinations for the armed ' forces to date. To this may be add- ed examinations for the Red Cross . blood banks in the Province, total- ling 212,552."