Organisation

Progress In Medical

In Papua-N. Guinea

GOOD work in organising a medi cal service for Papua-New Guinea has been done by the energetic and tireless Director of

Public Health, Dr. J. T. Gunther, the last couple of years.

Recently, in a “graduation” cei mony at the Native Medical Schc at Malahang, near Lae, certifica were presented by the Director 50 native medical assistants, native hygiene assistants and 3 ; male native medical assistants.

A steadily increasing number this trained native personnel is t ing sent out into the native villas to teach the natives to observe t rules of hygiene, and to combat d ease.

It is Dr. Gunther’s aim to tn at least 1,000 of such natives, is giving particular attention to 1 eradication of the breeding an of the malarial mosquito, and to 1 care of native infants.

An Australian newspaper recen published a picturesque account Dr. Gunther on duty in the Cent Highlands. It described his gi and comfortless but purpose joumeyings on a more or less unr motor-bicycle, in which he seen to escape accident by miracles.

But he is achieving marked si cess in putting a basic organisat for medical care in among th primitive native communities wh total, in Papua-New Guinea, v over one million.

Miss Marjorie Squelch \ married to Mr. Harold Moores Port Moresby on November 3.