Medical School?
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Who Planned The Suva
Letter to the Editor IT is stated, in an article in the “Pacific Islands Year Book” which deals with the Suva Medical School, that it is the creation of two long-visioned men - Dr. S. M. Lambert, an American, who was sent into the Pacific by the Rockfeller Foundation, and Dr. Aubrey Montague, an Englishman, who was Chief Medical Officer in Fiji for many years.
We of the Pacific know what wonderful work both Dr. Lambert and Dr. Montague have done for the natives of the Pacific —especially that done by Dr. Lambert in connection with hookworm. He con tributed enormously to the salvation of the Pacific Islands.
But Dr. C. M. Dawson, formerly Chief Medical Officer for the Tongan Govern ment, who has also seen service in Samoa and Rarotonga, and who was in the Pacific many years before the arrival of Dr. Lambert, had the idea for a Cen tral Medical School. This idea he con veyed to Dr. Lambert, with the hope that it would be put into practise. It was put into practise, but with no mention of Dr. Dawson as the brains behind the scheme.
Dr. Dawson is at present acting as Chief Medical Officer in Rarotonga.
I am, etc.,
Observer.
Devonport, Auckland.
January 26, 1945.