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Makogai Leper
MRS. C. J. Austin, wife of Dr. C. J.
Austin. OBE, medical superintendent of the Central Leper Station on Makogai Island (Fiji Group), has been visiting her daughter, who is at school in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, and she has given interesting data to NZ newspapers.
The hosnital at wac nnpnpH 1911, with 40 patients, most of them in the advanced stage of the disease, and therefore incurable. The majority of the 650 patients there at present are in the being released in frorn three tcf five° years* the Pe mse n ale UP ° n Ume teken t 0 alTest a I- , • , sffiTF yS • h f ghest £’ lbut ! to *t ;he sisters, whose devotion to the sufferers is wonderful. Comforts, including toys for the children, are received from New Zealand, and talkies a T,r Sh °r. < £‘ he °. nce V eek tionpd nn d tm fH haVe fTo 11 sta “ tioned on Makogai for the past 12 years and m recognition of his work, the New°Year S blf ° BE in the laSt i\ew Year Honours list.