INFANT HEALTH IN MELANESIA
Drive For Funds For
Dispensaries
A new drive for funds to build five more dispensaries for treatment of children and mothers in the islands of the Melanesian groups is being planned by the secretary of the New Zealand Lepers’ Trust Board (Mr P. J. Twomey). Mr Twomey says that in his travels around the islands of the Pacific, particularly the British South Solomons and the New Hebrides, he has been appalled by the wastage of the lives of mothers and babies. About two out of five children born on the Melanesian islands dies in infancy. He says that thousands of children and their mothers are the victims of tropical diseases and malnutrition. Hundreds of children die every year for want of proper treatment. “I have seen much of these people,” says Mr Twomey, “and have seen for myself the tragic conditions that take such awful toll of young lives. In our favoured country, with our high standard of living and the medical skills that are so readily available for mother and child it is difficult to realise the plight of those unfortunate neighbours of ours.” «
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29099, 11 January 1960, Page 11
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