LEPER HOSPITAL
ESTABLISHMENT IN SOLOMONS (P.A.) AUCKLAND, March 4. A leper hospital is to be established in the British Solomons Protectorate. The secretary of the Leper Trust Board, Mr P. J. Twomey, left Auckland to-day by air for Suva to make preliminary arrangements for the establishment of the hospital, which is authorised by the British Government. Mr Twomey will confer with Dr J. Buchanan, chief medical officer of the High Commission of the Western Pacific and Dr C. J. Austin, medical superintendent of the Makogai Leper Station. Of the 1,000 lepers in the British Solomons Protectorate only 100 are receiving medical attention, and this by the missionaries. The site for the hospital has already been secured. Four European nurses and a native doctor, trained at Makogai, are waiting to go to the Solomons.
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Evening Star, Issue 26041, 4 March 1947, Page 8
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133LEPER HOSPITAL Evening Star, Issue 26041, 4 March 1947, Page 8
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