Sharp, Deadly Epidemic
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in New Hebrides
ON August 27, the second doctor at the French hospital at Port Vila, Dr.
Montfort, assisted by a Fijian N.M.P., Peni Tuidraki, was sent urgently to the island of Tongoa. in New Hebrides, to deal with what appeared to be a malaria epidemic, which was causing numerous deaths among natives on the island.
Dr.. Montfort found that a great many villages had been stricken by the dis ease, with rapid and deadly complica tions, but in some cases, where the vil lages were better situated than others, the people had resisted the onslaught of the disease.
Dr. Montfort left Tongoa on August 30, leaving instructions and medicines
with Mr. Nottage, the missionary on Tongoa.
At the request of Dr. Herivaux, Dr.
Montfort made an investigation in Tongoa into the spread of the tubercular germ.
This should contribute much to import ant work being undertaken at Port Vila by all the New Hebrides consultants of the French hospital, concerning tuber culosis in New Hebrides.
A dividend of 1/- a share (the third) payable on December 8, was announced by the chairman of Loloma (Fiji) Gold Mines, N.L. (Mr. P. F. Cody), at the third annual meeting in Melbourne on November 11.