’FLU IN SAMOA
No Extra Help Needed By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, September 17. The Director-General of Health, Dr M. H. Watt, left Wellington for Auck lan4 this afternoon to connect with the Niagara‘to-morrow. In company with Dr S. M. Lambert, of the Rockefeller Enunciation, Dr Watt will proceed to Fiji, and after a short stay there will continue to Pagopago. Eastern Samoa, going thence to Western Samoa. Advice has been received by the External Affairs Department that no extra assistance is needed to cope with the influenza epidemic there. Ono doctor and several native assistants in West ern Samoa and another doctor who is on leave in New Zealand will return shortly. In pddition, there are nine white nurses and about 30 assistants. Mr Watt will be away from the Do tnit’ion for about six weeks.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 236, 18 September 1934, Page 2
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