Dr. Edward Jacomb
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Visits The Pacific
AN interesting visitor to the South Pacific Islands at present is Dr. Edward Jacomb, who prac tised law in the New Hebrides be fore World War I, and wrote a useful book about the Condominium in 1914. He returned to Europe over 30 years ago. and served for a time in the Royal Navy. He had not again seen the Islands until, a few months ago, he visited Fiji and Tonga.
Dr. Jacomb arrived in Sydney in October, and went on in the Novem ber Morinda to Norfolk Island, where he has secured a bungalow, and proposes to spend a restful few months. Later, he will visit the New Hebrides.
After World War n, Dr. Jacomb —although then in middle age— studied medicine and became a qualified medical practitioner.
Dr. Jacomb made a keen study of health conditions in Fiji and Tonga.
He does not like what he found in Tonga—he fears that tuberculosis there is so widespread that it actu ally threatens the existence of the Tongan race.