CARE OF LEPERS
INCREASING NUMBER OF CURES AT MAKOGAI. Mr. P. J. Twomey, secretary of the Lepers’ Trust Board, Incorporated, has returned from a 10 doys’ visit to the Makogai Leper Station, Fiji, where he made a detailed inspection of the various departments and hospitals on the island. He also mixed among the 'patients and interviewed them. This leper station is considered by some authorities to be one of the best, if not the best, in the world. The number of cures is increasing. In 1942, 41 patients were discharged as cured and sent back to their homes. In February last another 45 cases were released. In addition to the above, 14 more cures have been passed by a medical board composed of three medical practitioners, and these are now awaiting transport from the island. Mr. Twomey had the pleasure of meeting some of these ex-patients during his stay there. He also visited Tonga and Samoa in the interests of leper work.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19430329.2.43
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1943, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
162CARE OF LEPERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1943, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in