ive?walmlla P r?a ble Sr. W GSnK:
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Ugly Health Problem In
Papua N. Guinea
Addressing more than 100 delegates on the second and final day of the Australian Academy of Science, on May 25, in Brisbane Dr. J. T. Gunther (the P-NG Director of Medical Services) said that the 1.7 million native population of Papua and New Guinea had a desire to work with the whites to a full development.
But the natives, he stressed, were too sick and indolent, under nourished and unhealthy.
ive?walmlla P r?a ble Sr. W GSnK: said that it was halting the * pro gress of the native and the devel opement of his country.
New Guinea, emphasised Dr.
Gunther, should have an Institute of Medical Research to cope witn all the work that remain ed to be done in overcoming the territory's disease problems.
Dr. R. H. Black, of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medi cine, Sydney, said Papua-New Guinea could well support an In statute of Medical Research.