MEDICAL CHECK-UP
PACIFIC. ISLES NATIVES NEW YORK, Nov. 20. The United States will soon begin a medical census of 50,000 natives scattered over 2,000,000 square miles of the Pacific. The Navy is converting a ship mto a floating laboratory for the- survey, which is expected to begin early next year and take several years. The area to be covered includes 117 islands in the Carolines, Marshalls id northern Marianas. The natives of these islands have been plagued for many years by yaws, tuberculosis, leprosy and intestinal parasites introduced by Europeans and against which the natives have lutle resistance. When the laboratory ship visits an island or atoll each native will be brought out by boat for a complete medical and dental examination.
Sanitation experts will check food and water supplies, garbage and sewage disposal and rat and pest control.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22512, 16 December 1947, Page 4
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