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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1957Vol. XXVIII, No. 2

Flu In W. Samoa

p. 165 · Read in the full issue

IHE mild influenza epidemic . which had been prevalent in Apia and neighbourhood for me weeks and had disorganised isiness and Government organisa- Dns to an appreciable degree, had, id of August, as was expected, iread to the outside districts of polu and to the island of Savai’i.

There are no reports of fatalities suiting from the flu though some ises of complications are reported.

Mr. Tony A. Bambridge, secretary the Lepers’ Trust Board in ihiti, has received a grant of £5OO om New Zealand for leprosy itients in Tahiti.