LEPROSY PATIENTS CURED
.RAROTONGANS RETURN HOME.
By Telegraph—Press Association.
Auckland, July 13.
A party of Rarotongans, five women and a boy, arrived by the Togua this week on the way home from the hospital for lepers on Mokogai Island. They were comfortably housed ashore pending their departure on Monday by train for Wellington, en route to Barotonga. Some of them have been at Mokogai for
years. Dr. Hughes, Medical Officer of Health, states that in order to make sure it was safe to permit patients to return to their homes they were first kept under lengthy observation, the time depending entirely on the length of time they had been patients and the manner in which they had responded to treatment with the aid of Chaulinoogra oil, which is providentially available where leprosy lo most prevalent. The proportion of cured cases is steadily increasing.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1929, Page 9
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