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Wednesday, October 18, 1972
BRITISH EXPERT ARRIVES FOR LEPROSY CONSULTATIONS
Dr. Stanley Browne, Medical Consultant at the London headquarters
of the Leprosy Mission, has arrived in Hong Kong for consultation with the
Medical and Health Department on the leprosy programme, both now and in the
future.
His visit is part of a tour of East Asia and he is spending five days
in Hong Kong as a guest of the Mission's Hong Kong Auxiliary before leaving
for Seoul.
His Hong Kong programme includes an address at the annual general
meeting of the Hong Kong Auxiliary of The Leprosy Mission in the hall of the
Union Church at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow (October 19).
On Friday he is also giving an open lecture to medical students and
general practitioners on the public health aspects of leprosy work at 5:30 p.m.
in the Hong Kong University Lecture Theatre, Li Shu Fan Building.
Dr. Browne will spend this weekend at the leprosarium on Hei Ling Chau,
which he has visited a number of times in the past, assisting the officers
there with the selection of patients who could benefit from treatment with new
drugs as they became available.
On one of his earlier visits to Hong Kong, he took part in discussions
with senior members of the Medical and Health Department and Professor Olaf
Skinsnes on the modern scientific discoveries about leprosy.
As a result of these talks, the policy on segregation of patients
probably the first step along the path which
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under treatment was revised
has led to the present running down of the Hei Ling Chau leprosarium.
/The general
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