Central Medical School, Suva. Fiji

These two photographs show the staff and personnel of one of the most interesting scholastic institutions in the world— the Central and Medical School, Suva, Fiji, where young native men from all the Central and Western Pacific are brought together and taught medicine, so that they may return and give medical service to their own peoples. The lower group (the students) includes Fijians, Indians, Tongans, Samoans, and Cook Islanders.

Those in the upper group (staff of lecturers) are (left to right):- Back row.—Indian Med. Practitioner Samsoni; Dr. R. B. Maxwell, M.B., Ch.B., N.Z.; Dr. Thompson, Medical Officer of (Ophthalmologist), Suva; Dr. Ramsay, Rewa; Mr. Palmer, Govt. Pharmacist; Mr. Campbell, Govt. Bacteriologist; Mr. Martin, Acting-House Steward; Ram Prasad,

Indian Medical Practitioner; Filikesa, Native Medical Practitioner (Dis

penser).

Front row.—Dr. Beattie, Suva; Dr, McGusty, Secretary of Indian Affairs and Inspecting Medical Officer; Miss Pratt, Masseuse; Dr. S.M.

Lambert, Representative in the South Pacific of the Rockefeller Founda tion; Hon. A.H.B. Pearce, Chief Medical Officer of Fiji and Central Medical Authority for the Western Pacific; Miss L. Lea, Matron, Colonial Wan Memorial Hospital; Dr. T. Clunie, Medical Supt., C.W.M.H., and Director of Clinical Studies, Central Medical School; Miss Rial, Theatre Sister, C.W.M.H.; Mr. Blackie, Fiji Government Analyst; Dr. D. C. M. Mac pherson, Colonial Pathologist and Acting Tutor, Central Medical School.