Nutrition Research In
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Polynesia
PROBLEMS associated with nutrition and tropical diseases among Cook Islanders are to be investigated by an expedition from the Otago Medical School, led by the dean of the school, Sir Charles Hercus, in December.
Dr. Muriel Bell, head of the nutrition research department of the school, will undertake the nutritional survey, after completing a similar study in Fiji. She will be accompanied by Dr. Lucy Wills, the distinguished nutritional research worker from Britain. Preliminary re search work in Fiji and the Cook Islands suggests that there may be insufficient protein in the diet of the people.
Dr. G. M. Satchell and Miss V. Jolly, of the zoology department, will under take entomological studies, and Dr. T.
Faine and Mr. J. A. Samuel, bacteriolo gist, will assist Sir Charles.