£66,000 Still In Fiji

Anti Tb Fund

'HE Report of the Fiji War Memorial Anti-Tuberculosis Fund for the year led December 31, 1951, was issued in ra at the end of August and reached early October. t shows that in the year under review, Fund received £644 in donations and 30 from investments and deposits, and d out over £10,600 for equipment for Colony’s TB hospitals.

'ver £9,000 was spent on building and ipment for the Colony’s TB annexes 1 hospitals; £9OO went for furniture Tamavua Hospital, Suva; radio ipment for same hospital took £lOO. sre were some minor expenditures, quipment and materials ordered dur the year (but not delivered and not ! for) amounted to approximately 1,000. he Fund, at the close of December, a credit balance of about £66,000. antoux testing and BCG vaccination extended to country areas of Viti a during the year, the cost of the ;ine being met from the Fund. Two drovers, previously provided by the stees of the Fund have been employed this work. aring the year a TB clinic was es ished at Lautoka, and at Labasa the has been levelled for the erection of J-bed TB unit adjacertt to the exist hospital. iroughout the year, the Trustees of Fund again experienced difficulty in ining essential materials and as there in consequence, Uttle drain on Fund eys, a second appeal for the Fund not made. ijl’s Anti-Tuberculosis Fund is the ny’s World War II memorial. The i was opened in August 1949 and all ons of the community supported it usiastically. As a result, something £60,000 was raised and to this the srnment added £20,000. As can be by the 1951 report, the greater part his Fund still remains intact. Many lents of the Colony would like to seen more spent but the Trustees he Fund say that they have had ulty in getting the materials and >ment needed. It had been intended lake annual appeals to augment the 1, but due to the difficulty of spend the money originally subscribed, this been deferred.)