Fiji Anti-Tuberculosis Trust
pp. 41-42 · Read in the full issue
In Action
SINCE they were appointed early in the New Year, the Trustees of Fiji’s £BO,OOO War Memorial Anti-Tubercu losis Fund have allocated funds for the purpose of X-Ray units, hospital equip ment, and material for the construction of annexes to supplement the Medical Department’s anti-tuberculosis pro gramme.
Tuberculosis annexes of 32 bed capacity are to be constructed at Lautoka and
Labasa Hospitals, and wards at Tamavua Hospital which are now vacant will be furnished.
Mr, F. H. Beckett, ANZIA, prepared free of charge the plans approved for the tuberculosis annexes.
During the past year the old Native male ward at Lautoka has been repaired and converted into a 30 bed tuberculosis annexe for which staff has already been trained. This annexe was ready tor oc cupation on February 1.
The New Caledonian students from the College de La Perouse, Noumea, and its attached Technical School, who recently visited New South Wales at the expense of their own Government, were impressed by everything they saw. They visited Mascot airport, the ABC, an ice cream factory at Redfern, the Technological Museum, a department store, the Australian Woollen Mills at Marrickville, the Forge and Engineering Corporation at Homebush, a children’s hospital at Camperdown, Sydney’s Art Gallery, Natural
History Museum and Public Library etc The student visitors, chosen for ’good school work, were: Alberte Bataille Nicole Causard, Dassie, Pierrette Lagarde Monique My, Nakamura, Raymonde Zaksas, Gustave Baudrouet, Georges Breton, Frere, Rene Mouraud, Guy de St. Quentin, Jean Savoie, Gabriel Valet and Jean Verges. All but three are New Caledonian born. They were in charge of M. Grangie, head of the Education Department, and a teacher, M. Paul Armand.