 By June 1948 radio communication with Palm Island was installed, along with a 16 mm movie plant for entertainment of the patients.The women's huts at the lazaret were in a bad condition after the war, notwithstanding the poor design of all of the 1939-40 patients' huts.By September 1946 there were 38 women in 15 huts, when there were supposed to be two people per hut.