Fiji Anti-TB Fund

'"'HE Trustees of the Fiji War Memorial Anti-TB Fund have issued their rc irt on activities for 1952. ; Funds were swelled during the year by mations totalling £2,739—£2,160 of *ich was provided by the Governmenl <»m the disposal of Japanese war assets the Colony.

Expenditure during the year amounted £9,876, leaving a credit balance at ► cember 31 of £63,221. Most of this rm is invested in bonds or on fixed de sit, the interest from which totalled 1,236 Savings bank deposits and ready sh amounted to about £22,000 at the id of the year.

A children’s ward at Tamavua Hospital, □ugh damaged in the early 1952 hurri ne. was completed except for furnish es. It has now been decided, however, at the building is more urgently re- Ired as a transit ward for suspected ses and discharged cases in for re amination.

V band-saw for the occupational ?rapy department—an important section the Tamavua Hospital—was obtained, ntal and laboratory equipment for mavua and Lautoka. mobile x-ray mt. work in hand on a new TB ward Labasa increasing the beds from 30 to and the purchase of vaccine and drugs counted for most of the expenditure. \ TB outpatients clinic was established Lautoka and the TB ward at Waini casi more fully organised.