HEALTH IN PACIFIC.
DISEASE AMONG NATIVES. REPORT TO THE LEAGUE. LONDON, Jail. 21. The League of Nations Mission has completed its report on a survey of the health of the Pacific Islands, after the members had visited Fiji, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Papua, the Territory of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
Information on the population was not available, but tho members of tho mission agreed that it was not stabilised, after earlier considerable depopulation.
Tho report says an important cause of tho terrible mortality from chest disease among the natives was the adoption of European garments, which they did not know how to wear, and their habit of leaving wet clothes on, with deadly results.
The disregard of their health by the natives was also responsible for leprosy.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20779, 23 January 1931, Page 11
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