WHOOPING COUGH IN SOLOMONS
Death Of 24 Infants
On Tikopia, a remote-and tiny island of the Santa Cruz group in the British South Solomons, 24 infants died in a recent epidemic of whooping cough. Mr P. J. Twomey, secretary of the Lepers’ Trust Board, said there was no doctor, assistant medical officer or nurse on the island and the nearest medical aid was 150 miles away by sea. Whooping cough was one of the scourges of the Solomons, and recent reports said that mission hospitals'were at present full of infant sufferers, as the immunisation programme was begun too late,for resistance to this present epidemic. “Such incidents as these urge the necessity for continued and increasing aid to the people of the islands of Melanesia,” said Mr Twomey.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29270, 30 July 1960, Page 15
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