September

Tropical Disease

Pacific Conference in September

ADOPTION of a unified system for the control of tropical diseases is ex pected to follow a Pacific health con ference which will be held at the School of Tropical Medicine in Sydney in Sep tember.

Invitations have been extended to all

countries bordering the Pacific to send representatives. It is hoped the inter change of views will result in an improved medical technique in the treatment of tropical diseases.

The meeting will last a week. Delegates while in Australia will also attend the British Medical Association conference in Melbourne.

At the last tropical diseases conference in Australia in 1926, China, Japan, Singa pore, Java, Philippine Islands, the Portuguese Dependencies, and New Zealand were represented. The establish ment of the School of Tropical Medicine in Sydney was an outcome o'f that con ference.

Mrs. Douglas Quintal, a descendant of Mathew Quintal, able-seaman of H.M.S.

Bounty, who joined the mutineers and sailed with them in the Bounty to Pit cairn Island, died on Norfolk Island on January 11, after a long illness. She was 73 years of age, and was greatly respected by Norfolk Islanders, who affectionately called her “Aunt Ida.”