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Leprosy
SINCE the Conditional Discharge Ordin ance was passed in 1918, 696 patients have been discharged from the Makogai Leper Station, in Fiji. Of these, 385 have been discharged during the last 10 years and 101 during the last 13 months.
From these figures, it is obvious that the discharge rate is improving; but, according to Dr. Austin, Medical Super intendent of the station, this is due, not so much to improved methods of treat ment, as to earlier diagnosis. Treatment in the earliest stages of the disease gives a far better chance of recovery.
Dr. K. H. Black, a son of Mr. K. W. A.
Black, of the Fiji Medical Department, has taken up a post as house surgeon at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Suva.