Famous Fijian
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Hospital
FIJI’S Colonial War Memorial Hospital —one of the finest medical institu tions in the Pacific—is still expand ing.
The Medical Officer in Charge, Dr. E.
V. Maxwell, in his latest report, states that the hospital now comprises the main building in Waimanu Road, a tuber culosis hospital housed in what was for merly the Dudley House School for Indian girls, and a 40-bed hospital for women patients in a concrete building in Toorak Road, formerly the residence of Dr. I. H. Beattie.
The total number of admissions to the hospital in 1942 was 3,834. In the out patients’ sections of the hospital 2,187 consultations were held in the paying department and 25,104 in the non- European free out-patient department.
The honorary dentist, Mr. H. S. Mount, treated 859 cases during the year. In the X-ray department 2,682 radiographic examinations were carried out. The need for new X-ray equipment is emphasised. 22,120 prescriptions were dispensed at the hospital during 1942.
Mr. Lewis Lett, of Port Moresby, Papua—he and Mrs. Mollie Lett have been residents of Melbourne since the evacuation —has been visiting military camps recently in Victoria, and deliver ing lectures on Papua and New Guinea.
He has gained much deserved fame from his recent book on Papua and the Murray Administration.