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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1960Vol. XXXI, No. 4

Blood Leaflet

p. 125 · Read in the full issue

P -NG Replies To Blood Leaflet

he P-NG Legislative Council, October, passed an amend it to the Papua-New Guinea die Health Ordinance giving tors the right to give, without ents’ consent, blood trans ons to children . he amendments are based on ilar legislation introduced mtly in New South Wales, hey follow a recent Territory troversy in which the ovah’s Witnesses issued a klet “pointing out the dangers Wood transfusions”.

''he booklet was condemned by 3 Administrator, Brigadier M. Cieland, who asked the ives to ignore it. (" PIM”, tember, p. 139).