Fighting Disease in NZ's Island Territories
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New Zealand now has an extensive health service in her Island Territories of Cook Islands and Niue and Western Samoa. Much of the health work is done by Assistant Medical Prac titioners who are trained at the Central Medical School, Suva. But there are also others—nurses, nosquito-control teams etc. —who are trained in heir own islands. These photographs tell some hing of the story of what NZ is doing for the slanders’ health in Cook Island and Western Samoa.
Below (top to bottom): The 40-bed tubercu [?]osis hospital at Rarotonga.
Control of the filarial (not malarial) mosquito [?]as top priority. Filaria is the most widespread [?]isease of these Groups—swamps and pools like these are sprayed regularly.
At right, top to bottom: These nurses and [?]MP’s from Apia Hospital, with many others [?]ke them, maintain the Islands’ health services At school, the child is given regular medical [?]nd dental check-ups. Here, a mobile health [?]inic is visiting a West Samoan school.
Inside the dental clinic in Western Samoa. —Photos by the NZ Publicity Board.