Sulphur Drug Gives Hope for Island Lepers
The Lepers’ Trust Board has just been advised by Sir Brian Freeston, Governor of Fiji, that a special grant has been made for the purchase of promin for the treatment of leper patients. This sulphur drug is now being used with marked success on certain types of leprosy. Mr P. J. Twomey, secretary of the Lepers’ Trust Board, has just received the following communication from Sir Brian Freeston, Governor of Fiji: Having recently paid my first visit to the Leper settlement at Makogai, 1 am now in a position to express to you my personal appreciation ot the magnificent efforts made over a-num-ber of years by the Lepers \ Board Incorporated of New Zealand towards the welfare and contentment of the inhabitants. Not only by repeated and liberal donations, but also by its unfailing interest and sympathy has the Board earned the lasting gratitude of the sufferers, and 1 should like to place on record my sense of obligation to the Board, ana to all its supporters in New Zealand for their sustained and disinterested generosity.
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Grey River Argus, 18 September 1948, Page 7
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