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Medicine Man.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Port Moresby, Dec. 10.
DAROA, an exceptionally intelligent and efficient native of Hanuabada, near Port Moresby, died in November, after 20 years in the service of the Papuan Government.
Most of Daroa’s service was spent in the Medical Department where, as an at tendant, after careful training, he be came capable of dispensing and making up stock medicines for native out-pa tients, without supervision, from prescrip tions written out by the Medical Officer, in both Motuan and English.
In the course of a month, Daroa dealt out medicines to over 300 patients from different villages near Port Moresby.
These stock medicines included cough mixtures, tonics, fever mixtures, and em brocations, well known to the natives through continued use, and prescribed by the Chief Medical Officer.
Daroa’s duties also included assistance in dispensing and packing certain stock preparations and appliances on receipt of requisitions, from outlying Government stations and medical patrols. The care and efficiency which he continually show ed in the performance of his tasks earn ed him much praise in the Department, and he will be greatly missed, not only by those under whom he worked, but by the natives whose confidence he had gained, in his understanding of their ailments and needs.