HEALTH CONDITIONS
IN PACIFIC ISLANDS.
[United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]
(Received tins day at 1.0 p.ni.) LONDON, January 21
The League of Nations mission has completed its report on tiie survey of health conditions of Pacific Islands, after visiting Fiji, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Papua, New Guinea, Solomon Islands. Information on the population was unavailable but the mission agreed it was now stabilised, after earlier considerable depopulation.
The mission adds that an important cause of the natives terrible mortality of chest disease was due to the adoption of European garments, which they did not know how to wear, leaving wet clothes on with deadly results. The natives disregard of health was also responsible for leprosy.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1931, Page 5
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