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Manslaughter Cha[?]
IT was announced in Port Moi on October 4 that a m medical orderly had been < mitted for trial on charges of r slaughter following the deaths < natives as a result of injection; Yaws given in the Middle Ramu lage of Faita in August. (See
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The Coroner, Mr. T. Ellis, made investigations at the vil together with a pathologist Lae, Dr. Graggs, found that natives had died as a result of injections given by the orderl: the normal course of his duty.
The injections had been of c nut milk exposed to the air mixed with NAB powder and hacf set up a highly toxic metab*