THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
HEALTH OF NATIVES. LEAGUE MISSION’S SURVEY. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, January 21. The League of Nations Mission has completed its report on the survey of health conditions in the Pacific Islands after visiting Fiji, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Papua, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. Information about the population was not available, but the mission agreed that it was now stabilised after earlier considerable depopulation. The mission adds that an important cause in the terrible mortality among the natives is chest disease, due to the adoption of European garments, which they did not know how to wear. They left wet clothes on, with deadly results. The natives’ disregard of health was also responsible for leprosy.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21241, 23 January 1931, Page 7
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