Handy Book for Medical
p. 42 · Read in the full issue
Assistants
AN exceedingly handy little book, “Emergency Notes for Medical Assist ants,” has been compiled by Dr. W. M.
Strong, Chief Medical Officer in Papua.
The system of sending selected Papuan natives to the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Sydney Univer sity, for special training, is part of Dr.
Strong’s plan for providing the native population of the Territory, eventually, with a simple, efficient service of sanita tion and public health. This booklet is part of the scheme. Clearly printed, in simple, easy English, it will provide a valuable reference for the native medical assistant, working by himself out in the bush. It deals with fractures, disloca tions. haemorrhages, and common injuries, and shows how to treat the bodily ailments most frequently met with among natives. The book, which was printed in Port Moresby, will be useful to a great many people other than native medical assistants.