Tuberculosis Is Rife Among
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Tongans.
Prom Our Own Correspondent.
Nukualofa, Jan. 16.
JIOSATEKI TUBOU, one of the four Tongan students attending the Cen tral Medical School, Suva, Fiji, has re turned to Nukualofa by the M.S.
“Roxen” on account of having con tracted tuberculosis. Tubou had com pleted two of the four years’ course, and both his work and conduct were creditable.
Tuberculosis is the scourge of these islands, being responsible for a large percentage of deaths. Residents declare that the authorities should initiate some campaign to stem the rapid inroads of this dreaded white plague into the health of Tongans, who have not the natural immunities of Europeans to re pel the disease.