Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 20 February 1931Vol. 1 No. 7

Caused by European Garments

p. 7 · Read in the full issue

Page 77

Natives’ Bad Health

League Of Nations Report

CABLED advice from London states that the League of Nations mission has completed its report on the survey of health conditions in the Pacific Is lands, after visiting Fiji, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Papua, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

Information on depopulation was not available, but the mission agreed that it is now stabilised after the earlier considerable depopulation.

The mission adds that an important cause of the natives’ terrible mortality from chest disease is due to the adop tion of European garments, which they do not know how to wear, leaving on wet clothes, with deadly results.

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