Survey
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“Southern Cross” Makes Leper Survey
THE Melanesian Mission vessel “Southern Cross,” which is at present in Auck land, New Zealand, undergoing over haul, recently undertook a leprosy survey among the islands of the New Hebrides.
An Australian doctor was carried and as close a survey as possible was made. Only four or five cases were found among the
natives examined, which was consider ably fewer than expected.
The major difficulty encountered during the survey was finding the villages, which are not built on the sea shore but are hidden behind dense belts of coastal vegetation. - The “Southern Cross” will remain in Auckland until after Christmas, when she will take the Bishop of Melanesia back to his diocese.
Governor-General and Mme. Cournarie left Noumea by the patrol ship “Lotus” on September 28 to visit Wallis and Futuna.