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Epidemic
From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, August 29.
A RECENT epidemic in the Hanuabada group of villages near Port Moresby during the south-east sea son accounted for 14 deaths. The 3,000 natives there are liable to epidemics during seasons of exceptional severity, and these deaths occurred during July and August, when the season was extreme.
Concern was felt over the number of deaths, but investigations proved that in comparison with former years there was no cause for alarm. Officials pointed out that every three or four years dur ing extreme seasons epidemics are liable to occur —the last was in 1936, when whooping-cough accounted for many deaths.
Captain John W. Jones married Miss Annie MacFadyen at Apia, Western Samoa, early in August.
Mr. William S. Fowler, who served in Fiji as Sub-Inspector of Constabulary between 1929 and 1936, died recently in England, aged 37.