Leprosy Spreading In
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New Guinea
“T EPROSY is spreading rapidly in New Guinea, and is likely to become a big problem in the next generation,” said Dr.
E. A. Holland, Government Medical Officer in charge of the New Ireland district, on reaching Melbourne recently by the Nankin.
It was introduced by returning labourers from other parts of the Pacific. Already 600 were in the leper colony at Kavieng, and about 400 more were still at large on the mainland of New Guinea. These were now being segregated from the rest of the natives and taken to New Ireland,