E. Samoa Leprosy Patients
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to Stay in E. Samoa
rE Eastern Samoa Government is establishing a leprosarium at Tafuna, Tutuila, where all patients from that Territory will in future be treated instead of at Makogai, Fiji. The 26 patients at present at Makogai are to be re turned to E. Samoa by the E.
Samoa Government vessel Manu’a Tele in September.
It is understood that the E.
Samoa people have expressed the wish that their patients be kept at home where they may see friends.
It is also believed that certain new drugs are more accessible to tne Eastern Samoa Government than they would be to Makogai hospital.
If The BSIP Superintendent of Police and Prisons, Mr. E. J. H.
Colchester Wemyss, CPM, visited Yandina early in September to in augurate the building of a new Pouice station in the Russell Islands.
The station will be in charge of a European Inspector with a detach :ment of native police.