Fright Against TB in P-NG
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DR. D. JAMESON, who arrived in Brisbane from N.G. recently said that thousands of New Guinea natives sre being inocu lated with BCG against tuberculosis.
He said that 300 New Guinea natives suffering from TB were now housed in a special sanatorium and that there were wards for TB patients in all native hospitals.
Three European doctors and trained native medical assistants were spearheading the campaign against the disease.
Dr. Jameson said that in the coastal areas the incidence of TB was very much higher than in Australia, but they had been able to keep the disease from spreading to the Highland natives.
All tribes on the Highlands had been inoculated against TB, and labourers from those tribes were X-rayed after they had worked on the coast. Much of the medical patrolling work was done on foot along bush trails, but mass X-rays even in the remote villages were remarkably successful.
Dr. Jameson said that he had been walking solidly for the three years he had been in the Terri tory, and that all he wanted to do while on leave was to sit down somewhere and relax.