Beckenham Press Cuttings, 1964-1966

1964:
Several reports concern an interview for television that took place at the Chemotherapy Department of Wellcome Foundation Ltd about cancer research, the interview is pictured (March 1964) and there is an extract from the programme entitled The Enemies Within (Associated Television London, 26th April 1964).
A number of short articles cover an incident where a rare antitoxin had to be rushed from Wellcome Research Laboratories in Beckenham, Kent to Birmingham Children's Hospital for a child suffering from tetanus (9th October 1964).
Further coverage reports a possible key to a cure for Leukaemia (Manchester Daily Herald, 19th June 1964) and a new electron microscope at Wellcome Research Laboratories which can magnify up to 200,000 times (December 1964).

1965:
Several articles reporting the end of the measles epidemic in Britain thanks to a new vaccine tried and tested by Wellcome research laboratories at Beckenham, the vaccine variation was developed by Dr. Alan Goffe (29th January 1965).
Other articles inform of a Dr. D. J. Baur, from the Wellcome Laboratories of Tropical Medicine received the 1964 New York Academy for Science award for his research on the antiviral drug, Marbora or Methiszone. A special report headlined 'The Secret of life', gives a biographical account of Bauer's work (Sunday Mirror, 25th April 1965) and a BBC transcript titled 'Progress with anti-smallpox drug' by Richard Oliver gives an account of the importance of the drug itself (21st October 1965).
There is further coverage on Wellcome's new building to house the Wellcome Laboratories of Tropical Medicine (September/October 1965) and several obituaries in honour of Mr Alexander Thomas Glenny FRS, who was the first to suggest diphtheria toxoid was a immunising agent (5th October 1965).

1966
Contained is a visitor review article of the Wellcome Research Laboratory at Langley Park (Beckenham Journal, 31st December 1965), several brief articles about the development of a Wellcome-made Polio vaccine (February 1966) and two short biographical passages of Dr R. S. F. Hennessey, appointed research director of the Wellcome Foundation, and Prof. M. Weatherall, head of therapeutic division (Chemist and Druggist, 13th August 1966).

1964-1966

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