Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 August 1957Vol. XXVIII, No. 1

Reward To Devoted

p. 20 · Read in the full issue

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Woman Missionary

THE French Academy has awards the Raoul Follerau prize (valuu at about £A7OO) to a Cathol< nursing sister who is in charge the native section of Ducos Han senian sanatorium at Noumea.

This prize, which is awarded eves two years, is made to doctors missionaries who distinguish then selves in the battle against leproa< The winner at Ducos is Sistti Othilde, who since her arrival 1933 has nursed the native sick Ducos. In 1942, Sister Othilde fouii that she had contracted the diseas also, but this only made her appj herself with greater ardour to M nursing. Happily, she is now cure- In 1953, a visiting Minister Colonies decorated the Sister win the Legion of Honour.

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