To Fight TB at Pago Pago
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npHE ladies of the Welfare J. Organisation of American Samoa have launched an ambitious project. They plan to raise $25,000 to instal a new wing in the Pago Pago Hospital, due to the alarming increase in people afflicted with tu berculosis. When the Navy left Samoa in 1951 there were 54 bed patients; now they total about 100.
In a drive for funds, a public dance was given (in which several Govern ment employees personally volun teered their musical talents) and a starting sum of $460 was raised. Mrs.
B. F. Knuebuhl is President; Mrs.
Mary Hunkin, Vice President; Mrs.
Mary Pritchard, Treasurer; and Mrs. E. W. Johnson, Secretary.