Preponderance Of Indian
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Patients In Fiji Hospital
Prom Our Own Correspondent SUVA, March 16.
THE Fiji Medical Department’s annual report for 1946, makes a belated ap pearance as Council Paper No. 1 of 1948. It reveals that despite the per petual Indian wail for more and more medical and health services for Indians, all the principal hospitals of Fiji, with the exception of Levuka and the Tama vua Tuberculosis Sanatorium, are “swamped” by Indians.
At the Colonial War Memorial Hospi tal, Suva, at Lautoka, and at Labasa, there wqre more Indian patients in 1946 than there were patients of all other races combined.
The report suggests that the Indian preponderance is largely due to the fact that the largest hospitals are mostly m areas where there is a big Indian popu lation.