and Yaws
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NG Moves Against TB and Yaws
THE 1,600 people of the Siwai district of Bougainville are re ported to be co-operating enthusiastically in a large-scale medical compaign which includes simultaneous tes"s for tuberculosis and penicillin injections for yaws for the entire population.
People showing a negative re action to TB within three days will receive a TB resistance injection.
Those showing a positive reaction will be X-rayed later in Buin.
The Medical Officer at Buin (Dr.
F. T. Tuza) is supervising the tests.
Experiments at Nissan, off the coast of New Ireland, indicate that
penicillin has almost freed the island of yaws. t The Japanese pearling fleet operating in the Arafura Sea under agreement with Australia was ex pected to end the season in October short of the agreed 1,000-ton quota.
Total MOP shell taken to October I was about 700 tons. Total last year was 957 tons.