The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1949Vol. XX, No. 2

Medical Service

pp. 32-34 · Read in the full issue

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Mangaia, Cl.

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Edward Pohau Ellison,

U OBE, who for many years served faithfully the native population of the Cook Islands, and whose efforts have given Cl its splendid new TEI Sanatorium it well remembered, though he retired from local practice some years ago.

Mangaians recall the stay of Dr, Elli son here at the close of 1926, in which year h e h a d the misfortune to lose his wife His Httle three-year-old daughter, who came W ith him, was a pet of the is i a nders; the little girl was in the care of Miss Doris H ead, a member of the wpli-known Ninp fAtnilv weu Known INlue lamuy.

Nancy Ellison, now grown-up, is once

more living in the Cook Islands. She is one of the Nursing Sisters on the staff

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ing the institution, the Sister is still “little Nancy.”

She was at Niue Hospital previous to her Rarotonga appointment.