Service

Dr. C. M. Dawson Leaves

Islands After Long Years’

SUVA. April 4.

R. C. M. DAWSON, who since 1913, when he first went to Niue, has been widely known as a popular medical man in Niue, Samoa, Tonga and the Cook Group, called at Suva in the “Matua” on April 2 on his way from Niue to New Zea land, where he intends to retire.

Dr. Dawson claims that he has dis covered the cause of the common attacks of so-called jaundice in the Islands. He diagnoses the sickness as Weil’s Disease, caused by a wriggling microbe which does its best to destroy the blood, attacks the liver, kidneys and lungs, and sometimes the cerebro-spinal system.

He says that it was prevalent in North Africa during the war. At Niue it is a notifiable disease. Relief is secured by mass doses of penicillin.

Dr. Dawson’s diagnosis has been con firmed by Sir Raphael Cilento, former head of the Islands Medical Service of Australia and now stationed in Palestine.