Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1952Vol. XXII, No. 8

Better Treatment For Hanse

p. 40 · Read in the full issue

Page 4040

Disease

rEATMENT of leprosy by s phretone and diamidln (whi replaced the chaulmoogra treatment in recent years) is n being replaced by treatment w a new drug, DADPS, which is m< effective and very much cheap This was stated in Brisbane February by Dr. H. E. McMah who has been assisting in the w( against Hansens Disease (leproi and who has been relieving medi superintendent at the Mt. Hag leprosarium in New Guinea.

There now are 220 patients Mt. Hagen, and 690 out-patier and the number will increase the new law, designed to stamp < the disease in New Guinea, applied.

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