MAKOGAI LEPERS
Many Christmas Gifts
Appreciation of a gift of £5OO is expressed in .a letter received by Dr. T. Fletcher Telford and Mr. P. J. Twomey. New Zealand trustees of the Makogai Leper Station Christmas Fund, from Dr. C. J/ Austin, medical superinten dent at the station. Writing on December 30, Dr. Austin said in addition to the bank draft for £5OO, he had received 80 cases of gifts in good time for Christmas distribution. “The written word is totally inadequate to express our appreciation of your efforts on behalf of onr patients and of the generosity of our New Zealand friends,” wrote Dr. Austin. “Your appeal becomes more effective every year, and the increase this year is par ticularly welcome owing to the increase in our numbers. There has been a total of 184 admissions during the year, including natives from the Cook Is lands and Samoa, the Gilbert and Ellice Group (which is now for the first time taking advantage of our centralisation scheme for the treatment of lepers), in addition to those from Rotuma and Fiji itself. In spite of 45 discharges and 27 deaths, the number of inmates has risen from 466 to 580.”
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 101, 23 January 1936, Page 13
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199MAKOGAI LEPERS Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 101, 23 January 1936, Page 13
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