Leprosy Control
p. 155 · Read in the full issue
Further Progress in Leprosy Control
ANEW vaccine for the treatment of lepers has been discovered by Sister M. Suzanne, who spent many years at the Makogai Central Leprosy Hospital, Fiji, working under the hospital’s former medical superintendent, Dr. J. C.
Austin.
Recently she has been doing experimental work at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
The vaccine, Basterium Marian num, is now being used at Makogai, and favourable results are expected. r Dr. A. E. Dugdale, recently of Timaru Public Hospital, NZ. staff, has been appointed a Medical Officer in Fiji and will commence duties early 1955.