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Natives Suffer Like
IT is a popular superstition that native races do not suffer from the diseases of white people, and that if we could only get back to a simple diet, like they have, all our ills would be cured. A recent issue of the Medical Journal of Australia has an interesting article contradicting this idea.
A doctor from the Tropical Medicine School at Sydney University has just com pleted a medical survey of Papua and has analysed the ailments of the various tribes and villages.
Among the things which he has discov ered (apart from the indigenous diseases like malaria, ringworm and hookworm) are goitre, infantile paralysis, epilepsy, arthritis, middle ear disease, paralysis, rheumatism, and in fact most of the ills to which the flesh heir.
Miss Lucille Dupain, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Dupain, of Port Moresby, arrived in Sydney by the Macdhui from Papua on May 22. For several months prior to her departure. Miss Dupain had been taking an active voluntary part in broadcasting from station 4PM at Port Moresby, and she now has returned to Sydney to make a dramatic career for herself in Australia.