Pacific Islands Lepers
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LARGEST national group among the patients at the Makogai Leper Hospital, Fiji, is provided by Indians, according to NZ Leper Trust Board statistics. There were 224 of them at the end of last year (168 men and 56 women). Fijians were the next largest group (74 men, 52 women). The Gilbert Islands sent 64 men and 38 women and Western Samoa, 53 men and 32 women.
Nearly twice as many men con tract leprosy among Pacific Islanders as women. At the end of 1952, there were 455 men and 232 women at Makogai. Seventy Islanders were admitted in 1952 and 39 men and 18 women were discharged as cured.