COMBATING DISEASE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 313, 5 December 1936, Page 2

COMBATING DISEASE.

WORK OF LEAGUE. “The League’s health work has been free from many of the disadvantages with which other sections of its activities have had to contend,” remarked Mr L. P. Hardy, in an address on the League of Nations given to tlio Palmerston North Lunch Club to-day. Nobody desired tuberculosis, nobody wanted malaria, the speaker went on. Disease knew no boundaries, political or otherwise. The League made it possible for health workers to coordinate their efforts in combating disease. The main point was that everywhere, in this vital matter, there existed the will to co-operate, so that the working model for world co-operation which the League provided was able to function under the most favourable conditions, and had, in fact, produced results which were astonishingly successful. Typhus had been combated in Poland after the war and the health of the Greek refugees had become the especial care of the League’s health services. In passing, reference must be made to the work dono by the League in stamping out malaria, which had been almost endemic in Macedonia. By its wonderful work in the realm of health alone the League had justified its existence. A bureau had been opened at Singapore to collect information regarding epidemics in the East and weekly reports from 160 ports were sent out. Plague at ports visited by a ship cn route from China to Sydney meant that information was received that enabled the Australian authorities to take special precautions before the ship reached its destination. The world’s physician had reformed the medical services in Greece, in Bolivia, and in China especially.