Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 133
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[Page 133]
We walked round the clean wards - Much has to be done in the future but the place & the patients were all vy well looked after & seemed quite jolly & comfortable - There were 4 of us medicos going round & Father Fox of the R.C.mission - Father F & I foregathered & he has asked me to call on him at the Presbytry or Manse & of course I shall - There is a Semi Scientific society here - The Fijian Society designed to learn all it can of Fijian native ways & customs Father F tells me Fijian women prefer their children to have Yaws – Why he couldn't say - When I tell you that the lesions of Yaws & Syphilis are the same & the treatment the same though I am informed that the diseases are quite distinct specifically you will be as astounded as I am at the profundity