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Fiji 'S Tb Campaign

SUVA, April 23.

RECENT publication of some what belated information about Fiji’s War Memorial anti tuberculosis campaign has not curbed press criticism. Main ques- Why has the campaign appar ently become a sideline activity of the Medical Department instead of an in orgLisa d t?o i n U wo*kYng W T dco operation with the department?

Why, after nearly five years, has the War Memorial Trust Fund not appointed a working committee

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the board? «btlin*ng %mpment ee havf e L a n S pos" sible alternative sources of supply been investigated?

In four years approximately one quarter of the original fund of £BO,OOO was spent. Much of the re

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that a further public appeal in 1954 been moote as necessary. be?ndu a ected e so e ieFv to toe one fixed hM some War Memorial money been spent on needs which

might reasonably be met out of departmental funds?

What has been done since 1949 to maintain the spirit of public enthusiasm among people of all races for the proposed all-out war on tuberculosis? (One of the points of the 1949 appeal was that a curbing of the disease, particularly among the Fijian people, would be

a fitting gesture of gratitude for the Fijian war effort in all its branches).

What has happened to the 1949 promise of an anti-TB educational campaign in the schools, and gen eral propaganda?

Pending answers to these ques tions, any new public appeal this year may get a chilly welcome,