CONDITIONS IN RABAL.
FIGHT AGAINST DISEASE. .’Reearzed tr.is dnv nt 927 a.in A SYDNEY. February 7. Doctor Cilento, director of health at Raliaul, who is at present in Sydney, said that malaria fever was still widespread in the territory, hut he believed it could he readily brought under control in most administration centres. The possibility of small-pox coming from the ease was. however, a menace to Australia. Referring to small pax. Dr Cilento said the whole of the ports of entry to the island group were less than fourteen days from the infected coasts of China and the East in general. As a consequence the most stringent precautions had to he used to prevent the introduction of the complaint. The administrator was wisely coping with the menace by forbidding the landing of any person not vaccinated and also by vaccinating all natives within reach of the medical patrol, which was extending its operations farther afield. The patrol was constantly opening up entirely new areas where white men had not previously been.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1925, Page 2
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171CONDITIONS IN RABAL. Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1925, Page 2
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