Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 132
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line you get so many introduced species - Leaving there I went to the Hospital – literally built on 7 Hills & between each ward on a hill top – is a gully - I asked the RMO how many days he took to do a round in & if casualties among the staff were not frequent - I never saw such a contraption - However this is all to be altered & it will be all on one level & easy to administer - All the wards were well kept & well managed - The native wards were a vast improvement on the German ones at Rabaul - That is a good dodge - of thick matting – in place of a mattress - It's laid on the wire of an ordinary bed - One unfortunate coolie (Indian) had had both his legs amputated high up – close to his body - Yaws is the commonest Fijian disease - Hook worm gut disease frightfully common among the Indian coolies – adults not children - Filiriasis another vy vy common disease - Tuberculosis is gaining ground rapidly in Fiji