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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1950.
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DOCTORS, NUNS WINNING Waiting For
On
LEPROSY BATTLE
By John Stackhouse
Suva, Jan. 9.
Fiji's coral-fringed Makogai Island, where lepers from many parts of the South Pacific come for treatment, a handful of doctors and nuns are winning a fight against one of mankind's most dreaded scourges-leprosy.
New drugs, developed only in the last few years, have brought hope to native peoples who once faced a lifetime of exile and a rotting decline,
Now, the time that lepers spend on the peaceful. Indus trious island of Makogai will at once ensure their recovery of good health and improve their chances when they return to their own propie to resume normal life.
After World War I, leprosy was only too common a disease
"Much of the success attained at Makogul is undoubtedly aur to their efficiency, versatility und selfless devotion," the re port noten,
Following their success in Fiji, other British colonies have drawn on the experience of the white-cowied sisters and the 10
in FIJI, and indeed in the count-establishing less other tropical islands of the South Pactic.
solely played a large part
leper enteny in the West Inder and the Sole- mon Islands.
eachi
Makugal,
of
Lingering Death national groups lives in its own
that
Omelni figures Ehow c about 2.20 persons in every 1.000 then suffered from the disease, although health experts reckon ed that the figure was five lines large. Leprosy then meant a lingering painful death, far from home.
Many sufforers preferred to
stay near their own villages and die close to their own people.
But as conditions on Makogal improved, The usefulness of treulment became mure strongly established and the chances of cure become more certain. The opposition to segregal.in
die out
Today, an
village, with its own heaman The worst mutterers are kept in hospital, bul the able-bodied patients, who include nearly al the men on the island, are kept usefully eruployed to escape Doredoni.
Chances Excellent
Some garden, fish and key. livestock while others work at trades, buliding or roud-making. largely This makes the colony
All those who self-supporting. work get paid and paid quite well by locul standarda,
They
can shop at the islund's operative
Ve store.
00.
17
number of children on 10 island are also under treatment. They go to s.hool and have unofficial
report notes: "Only a very small pru better chance of education than
have portion of the population of Filthey would normally 11.ts to seek mesiest and or some of their villages.
advice and it is found that com-
Luckily, modern methods cal prevent the
ulcers
de- and puratively low cates reach
terioration of leprosy. advanced stage, Bowlb
There is muc
So many less chance of their having In-
of the children look absolutely normal. fected other people.
Their chances of a complete recovery are excellent.
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BUNDAY POST-HERALD |largely broken down. Patients Spaca for commercial realise that they bencilt them- selves at least as much as the than community by coming to Mako- gui and they understand the value
carly of
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In The
21 miles in length. is
Makoga, an salatid roughly
middle of the Fill group.
Cooma) effelas turned this lovely little tropical island in agrim leper settlement in 1811 A sudden rise in the incidence cf prosy followed the British Oovernment's termination At
He Fijian way of dealing with clubbing lepers by brutally
them to death, or hanging them upaldo down over a smokus
Aro.
The attractive little asttlement draws
patients from New Zea
land, the Cook Islands, Tonga and the Gilbert and Ellice groups.
Selfless Devotion
The number of patients therr today is 888, including 417 from FUL
work
Under the medical super- intendent, Dr W. H. McDonale, MBE,
18 missionary sisters of the Society of Mary and 18 Fijian sisters. A Fiji Government Dublication pay's special tribute to the nuns,
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Genie
and
A rub on Aladdin's lamp should conjure up ▲ genie ready to make wishes come true. Seen waiting his arrival are comedian Dave King (Wishes Washee), 26-year-old Cardiff-born Valeria Lawson (Aladdin) Jett
singer Alma Cogan
slar). plotured They are rehearsal for the pantomime "Aladdin' which opened at the Chunwick Empire. London Th's is Valerie's fourth year as principal boy. She made her first appearance on the stage in l'olumy Trindor's show "Top of the World" at the Pala
dlum.-Reuterphoto.
Old Customer Not Forgotten
Napier, Jan. 9.
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A London firm wrote to the Hawkes Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society reminding them that the fron formerly struck medals for the
society.
and agresting 11 resumption business.
"Tsibly
years
of
St Benedict's Remains
To
Returned Montecassino
Montecassino, Italy, Jan. 9. The remains of Saint Benedict, founder of the Benedictine Order, and of his sister, Saint Scholastica, have returned, after five years, to their original resting place below the High Altar of the 'now rebuilt Church of Montecassino Abbey. This sprawling Benedictine Abbey, perched on a 1,703 foot high hill above the town of Cassino, has been rebuilt after its destruction by bombing and shelling in one of the most famous battles of the Italian campaign in World War II.
The Abbey was founded 1,400 penedict and Scholarilca, August years ago, but none of the 7, 1050,"
buddings Sestroyed during the war was more than 300 years vid.
The remains of the two Sainio, emong the most valuable relies possessed by the Cathoile Church, were found on August 1. 1050, during the rebu.lang.
Silver Caskets
of Lost year,
procession monka, bonded by Monsignor Gluseppe Placido M. Nicolini, Blahop of Assisi and Primoto the 1,000 Benedictines through- out the world, curried the relics, to the new church from an
gratory in the Abbey where they had been kept provisionally.
The romɔina of the Saints were scaled in two rilver caskets which, in turn, were placod in a brunze urn richly decorated with allver
The Abbots
taking present part in the
rites affixed their on the urn and lowered it scals icts the cavity, which was their original resting place,
It was then covered by a big marble slab engraved with the dates 1950 and 1955.
The Inscription commemorat- ed the previous identification of the reics.
Whin the alabaster urn was, a casket of decayed cyprces wood. This, in turn, contained casket of lend, securely scaled, bearing on the lid simply the
a
TWO
names: "Benedict
Scholastica,"
and
The lead casket was divided into two parts, the one contain- Ing bones, the other ashes.
Univerity professcri from Naples and Rome minu'ely analysed the casket and relies, Their report said that the bones
viere Shotze woman.
of a man
Incomplete
and
A
10-
The man appeared to have been fall, of advanced age, with strong vigorous handa customed to the hurd work that Saint Benedict advocated for all his followers. The women ap- perred to have been amall and aight
Both
Ekeletons were incom-
plete, as though relles had been removed at one time or another, But both, the report said, showed indisputable proof of having re- Ren,mained throughout the centuries
nomes,
Alabaster Ura 'Monsignor Ildefonso Abbot of Montecamino, colo- | in the chekët bearing their brated Mass at the end of the ceremony.
the man's relics fitted with a bone of Saint Benedict given centuries ago to unother
monastery and now restored 1C tr
Saint Benedict, of Norcia, in the Abruzzi mountains of centrai Italy, was about 70 years old when he died around 550 AD.
Marcover,
monks
ct Mal
He founded the Abbey of Montecassino, China war Mantecassino in 029.
the during the question of medals lapred," the letter sald.
Research by the
which war
venico
His sister died in 843 after ruling a convent near Montecas
Saint Benedict's
under
society re-sino
the letter direction. referred to the Вост War. Their relies were found in than half 1050 in en alabaster urn bearing
"Tho Mail the inscription
sacred bones and astics at Salate
Mica, D. In.
Japan. 1 ..
Philippines, 2 pm.
which ended
more
Indo-China 3p.m.
Sarawak. N. Borneo, 3 p.m. Macao D..
11
century Special,
ago.-China
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
·MANDRAKE GESTURES HYPNOTICALLY-THE MESSENGER SEEMS TO FREEZE IN MID-AIR?
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Anglo-Spanish Relations Improve
Spanish
Madrid, Jan. 8.
sources
here
express satisfaction at the recent improvement in ro- lations between Spain and Britain.
con-
Differences of opinion cerning Gibraltar had kept re- lations cool during the past two years, but now, apparently, it has been decided to leave the subject in the background for the time being.
Reasons for this change are Been here as both international and commercial. Spain does not wish her .relations with the West to be limited to her close collaboration with the United States.
Marred
Spain's relations with France are marred by disagreement Jover MorocED, With Germany, there is a certain tepidness, dus parily to German resentment over Spanish seizure of German properly after World War II and do a certain hesitation in German political circles about becoming closely associated with Ime once Friendly with Hitler.
Italy and Spain get along fairly well. But Spanish cb- Bervers claim that Italy resents Spain's present" friendship
and Induence with the Arab nations a role which Italy herself played for several decades.
Spain, therefore, tenda in tura to Britain. She hopes aventually to persuade Britain to lease the Giraltar basts in the way the United States, has done, but in the meantime she appears to be prepared to place the issue in the background.
Best Customer Commercially, Brilain la Spain's best custeiner, Not only doos she buy hundreds of thou- sands of tons of oranges, but, In 1984, including visitors dis embarking from cruise liners, 221,120 Betish tourists visited... Spain
Spain earna something lik £50,000,000 a year from trude with Britain. plus the impulse given to her economy by several hundred thousand British visitors each year:
Observers here sou pointers to improved relations in the fol», lowing recent even;
The first visit of the Brithh navy, for two years, when the aircraft carrier Triumph and the frigate Venus visited Baroslonia; Ben Settlement via
The preasfice of the former Foreign Secretáry, Mr. Harold Macmillan, at a luncheon at the Spanish Embassy in London;
A. The settlement of derriand for improved par by Spanish workers in Gibraltar Mempe
The visit of Bir ivce, Malle British Ambasador, to bre
at a time when Mordocks, Fare antich '155, the, nawKA