IN THE TROPICS.
A BIG PROE*—EM. MEDICAL SERVICE. The ability of white persons to ■adapt themselves to tropical climates has been proved to experienced observers, but it has been recognised 'that the problem was one which essentially called for applied public health. Dr. R. W. Cilento, of Brisbane, dealing at the Science Congress at Sydney with Australia’s problems in the tropics, said that the attempt to use coloured labour in the 'tropical north had been a lamentable failure and had produced the disease picture of the ’eighties, the worst in Australia’s whole medical history. To that period must be set down the establishment over a wide area of a number'’of serious tropical diseases, Including fllaria, which was still endemic among 3 to 5 per cent, of the inhabitants of the whole eastern seaboard, of Queensland; hookworm, which has cost enormous sums for the establishment of the present routine control, and leprosy, which was a problem of great concern in Northern Australia.
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Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18723, 25 August 1932, Page 11
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161IN THE TROPICS. Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18723, 25 August 1932, Page 11
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