PACIFIC ISLANDS
HEALTH OF THE NATIVES LEAGUE'S MISSIdN REPORTS (Elcc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received Jan. 22, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Jaii. 21. The League of Nations mission lias completed its report on a survey of llie health conditions in the .Pacific Islands after visiting Fioi, Now Hebrides, Now Caledonia, Papua; New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. Information on the population is unavailable, but the mission agreed that it is now stabilised after the earlier considerable depopulation. The mission adds: "An important cause of the natives' terrible mortality is chest disease, due to the- afloprifln of European garments, which they did not know how to wear, leaving we* clothes on, with deadly results. The natives disregard for health also was responsible for leprosy."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17472, 22 January 1931, Page 11
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