Mysterious Disease Made
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Patients' Hair Fall Out
From Our Own Correspondent MANGAIA, April 10. rE wierd epidemic, variously diagnosed as poliomyelitis and typhoid and now known to be neither, has died out.
The patients who had it, and have re covered have found that their once abundant tresses, in female convalescents, came right away; leaving a downy growth to save them from the humiliating state of baldness—a major disaster to “the sex,” and Island girls most particularly, proud as they are of their crowning glory.
In view of similar symptoms in typhus, the writer inclines to the idea that this was the germ responsible, though how it arrived here remains a mystery.
Dr. K. H. Steenson and Mr. George Barratt, snr„ have been granted commis sions as Justices of the Peace in respect of the Southern District, Fiji.