Pacific’S Medical

Problems

Conference in Sydney

AN international conference in Sydney on September 3 will deal with a wide range of subjects concerning health and medicine in the Pacific basin. It will be the first meeting of the kind to be held at the newly established school of Tropical Health and Medicine. It will occupy three days. The first conference was held in 1928.

Delegates include the following:— Federated Malay States, Dr. G. A. Ryrie; Fiji, Dr. A. H. B. Pearce (he will also re present Great Britain); Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Dr. F. E. Montague; Japan, Dr.

Genzo Katoh; Netherlands East Indies, Dr.

H. de Rook; China, Dr. Wu Lien Teh; New Zealand, Dr. M. H. Watt; Papua, Dr W. M. Strong; New Guinea, Dr. E. T.

Brennan; Norfolk Island, Dr. L. S. Duke; Northern Territory Dr. C. E. Cook; League of Nations, Mr. C. L. Park.