LEPER PATIENTS
THIRTY-FIVE TRANSFERRED TD MAKOGAI fPm Us!T»» Ps*a» AmocUtioh.l AUCKLAND, March 28. The transfer of thirty-five lepers from various Pacific islands to the leper station at Mokagi, Fiji, was accomplished by the Government steamer Matai, which called at Auckland to-day after a tour of inspection of the hurricane damage in the Cook Islands. The lepers were collected in the course of the ship’s visits to the various islands, Dr Ellison, chief medical officer of the Cook Islands, being in charge. Thirty patients were collected in the Cook group, including twenty from Pcnrhyn Island; and at Apia five more, four of whom were Samoans, and one trom Niue were taken on board. They were accommodated in a special bouse built for them on the fore-deck of the Matai, and this structure was landed with them at Makogai, There arc now 500 lepers at Makogai, comprising Polynesians, Indians, and Chinese. Six of the patients carried by the Matai were advanced cases, but the others suffered from the disease only in its incipient stages.
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Evening Star, Issue 21991, 29 March 1935, Page 15
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172LEPER PATIENTS Evening Star, Issue 21991, 29 March 1935, Page 15
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