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Pacific Islands Monthly, 16 October 1945Vol. XVI, No. 3

Discharges From Makogai

p. 56 · Read in the full issue

DURING the past year there were 55 discharges from the Central Leper Hospital, Makogai, eight of them un conditional discharges. Total number of patients on the island at present is 626, of which Fiji is responsible for 443—244 Indians and 148 Fijians. Other patients include Gilbert Islanders, Cook Islanders and Samoans. x Mr. P. J. Twomey, secretary of the Leper’s Trust Board, which has its head quarters in New Zealand, was in Suva in September. He has been visiting the Solomons and Makogai, studying prob lems with which his Board has to deal.