cies in hygiene andsanitation, and institute health education programs.
The results were mostsatisfactory.
The Woleai-Lamotrek field trip personnel together with their
equipment departed Guam via plane on November 10, 1950 and
arrived on Woleai the same day. The medical team consisted of a
Medical Corps officer, a Dental Corps officer, a Chief Hospital Corps-
man and a student from the School of Medical Assistants on Guam.
The party left Woleai for Lamotrek on November 24 and remained
there until December 3 when it returned to Guam. The medical
officer found that the natives on both atolls were “in good condition
in general” and that the average level of public sanitation was 1mproving due to emphasis given it on routine quarterly field trips. The
outstanding medical problems continued to be intestinal parasitism
and tuberculosis. The dental condition of the people was “extremely
poor” but the dental officer discovered that it was due to lack of
knowledge of oral prophylaxis and oral hvgiene rather than poor
structure of the teeth so that education in dental care would rapidly
improve the situation.”
The Mortlocks field trip personnel left Truk abroad the indigenous
owned ketch NOMAD on January 15, 1951 and, during the next eight
weeks, visited Nama, Losap, Namoluk, Satawan and Lukunor, return-
ing to Truk via naval vessel (AKL-3) on March 14. Medical personnel consisted of a Medical Corps officer, a Dental Corps officer,
a Chief Hospitalman, and a Marshallese medical assistant recently
graduated from the medical school on Guam. The WHIDBEYhad
not yet worked in the Mortlocks and no follow-up procedures were
possible. Although the medical personnel examined approximately
one half of the total population of the islands visited and prepared record cards for the Truk dispensary, the lack of supporting x-ray and
laboratory facilities lessened the effectiveness of the information
gathered, especially in the case of tuberculosis. Considerable time was
spent on eachislandin teaching health andsanitation principles. The
major finding of the dental officer was the high incidence of
periodentoclasia and his recommendations paralleled those of the
dentist of the preceding field trip."
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