LEPERS CURED
BACK FROM MAKOGAI
(By Telegraph—Press Association). AUCKLAND, July 13. A party of Raratongans, five women and a hov, arrived by the Tofua tills week on their way home from the hospital for lepers on Makogai Island. They were comfortably housed ashore, pending their departure on Monday by train for Wellington, en route to Raratonga. Some of them have been at Makogai for years. l)r Hughes, Medical Officer of Health, states that, in order to make sure that it was sn'fe to permit the patients to return to their homes, they were first kept under lengthy observation. Its duration depended entirely on the length of time they had been patients, and the manner in which they had responded to the treatment. With the aid .of Cliaulmoogra Oil, which providentially is available where leprosy is most prevalent, the proportion of cured cases is steadily increasing.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1929, Page 1
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145LEPERS CURED Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1929, Page 1
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