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Health Work
Rockefeller Campaign in Cooks
From Our Own Correspondent.
Rarotonga, Nov. 20.
A WELL advanced stage of the Rocke feller Foundation work at Raro tonga was reached some months ago, and material and plant were transferred to the Island of Aitutaki. Good weather conditions and keenness on the part of the native people to assist with the work resulted in the installations at that island being all finished by October last.
On October 20, the schooner “Tagua” sailed from Rarotonga with material and equipment for landing at Mangaia, where the sanitation work will be continued during the hurricane season.
Upon the resumption of the schooner service in March or April next, the work will be transferred either to Mauke or Atiu.
On leave from his duties as Government medical officer at Rabaul, Dr. R. W.
Cooper, arrived in Melbourne in Novem ber by the steamer Nellore. After gradu ating at Melbourne University Dr. Cooper became administrator of quarantine and health work at Rabaul, and he also prac tised on the gold fields of the Morobe dis trict. Diseases, he said, were gradually being wiped out there, and the tropics were becoming less unhealthy than for merly.