Leper Patients

Local Treatment For

tfTIL a few years ago the South Pacific administrations had to charter special vessels at con rable cost to transport leper ents to the main treatment and egation centres —Makogai, Oro i, Ducos, etc.

Jw, thanks to modem drugs, [ a small proportion—the in ious cases—are sent to such res. The others are treated at r home islands, or at small tment centres within the island ips. lis dispersal is now taking place licronesia. Patients there were lerly concentrated at Tinian, e July, they have been returned e, and future patients are to reated locally.