Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1955Vol. XXVI, No.5

Medical Survey of Aitutaki

p. 91 · Read in the full issue

Page 9191

Aitutaki

i FOUR-MAN New Zealand \ medical team will leave New Zealand for Aitutaki, Cook [lands, in January to carry out vo months research work.

The project will include an in stigation into high infant ortality, a general investigation of liman parasites, certain work on lariasis, and study of blood-group gs of the people.

The team will be headed by Dr. . McCarthy, Island Territories Re arch Officer at Otago University edical school. He will be accom mied by Mr. R. Marples, a science aduate, and Mr. D. T. Gray and r. N. H. Leslie.

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