Sydney
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Papuan Medical
Students
Further Party to Study in Sydney
From Our Own Correspondent.
PT. MORESBY, August 11.
THE Chief Medical Officer of Papua (Dr. Walter M. Strong) will leave Port Moresby for Sydney in September, with another batch of native students, to undergo a course of elementary medical training to fit them out for medical patrol work in Papua.
The first batch of students, who returned to Papua in February last, are already at work at different points along the coast and inland. It is as yet too early to judge by results; but it is confidently hoped by the authorities, that these natives will do a great deal towards providing elemen tary treatment among the coastal tribes and more settled people of the interior, who are in need of medical attention.
They are all stationed under the imme diate supervision of the Resident Magis trates of the different Divisions they were sent to. The Magistrates send them out in parties of three to patrol the villages of the district, and reports of their work are sent to the Chief Medical Officer in Port Moresby.