SPC Health Team Visits
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W. Samoa
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Nov. 4.
THE Tuberculosis Research Team of the South Pacific Commission (health Research Project H 3) is at present visit ing Western Samoa.
The team has already completed its work in Papua and New Guinea where 6,000 natives were examined, and in New Caledonia where 7,000 natives were ex amined. A short visit was also paid to Fiji before coming to Western Samoa.
After completion of research in this Territory, the team will go on to Tahiti.
To date, 700 Samoans have been ex amined..
The T. B. Research Team consists of the leader. Dr. L. P. J. Guillermin, of Paris,, a well-known authority and a member of the French Colonial Medical Service with wide experience in French Equatorial Africa and elsewhere; an Aus tralian bacteriologist, Miss B. G. Balferu; and a well-known X-Ray Specialist, Mr.
W. Hapi Love, of Wellington, NZ.
The objects of the investigation are:— (a) to compare the different antigens and methods used in Tuberculin tests in various racial and age groups; (b) to
study and compare various bacteriological techniques for use in the field; (c) to compare the radiological appearances in different races at different ages within the
World Health Organisation and, (and) to examine the possibility of producing sim pie technioues in radio2ranhv Snder fie?d conditlons 8 P y