INFANT MORTALITY.
DEATHS AMONG MAORIS. UNHYGIENIC CONDITIONS. (By Telegraph. —Press Association.) GISBORNE, this day. Reference to mortality among Maori infants was made by the district nurse of Mangakahia in her report to the monthly meeting of tlie Waiapu Hospital Board. The nurse stated that several babies in their first year, although seemingly healthy when born, contracted colds and died. Mild colds were prevalent in the district. The medical superintendent of the hospital, Dr. N. R. Mackay, explained in answer to a question that the condition referred to by the nurse was characteristic of the Maori, and he had seldom heard of a case of a European child dying in similar circumstances. From the time Maori children commenced teething they became affected, and he considered that the trouble could be traced to lack of hygienic living conditions and to incorrect diet.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 285, 1 December 1934, Page 20
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