MAORI “ON ROAD TO EQUALITY”
Health Problem Considered (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, October 14, Except in health, the Maori today was well on the road to equality with the European, the Director-General of Health (Dr. H. B. Turbott) told medical officers of health who attended a conference on Maori health problems this week. * Tuberculosis had disappeared almost entirely from the Maori scene, but there was still much to be done in other fields of health. Mr J. Rose, of the Department of Health medical statistics branch, said that infant mortality was the index of the health of a country. It measured standards of living and nutrition. “The Maori contributes one quarter of our infant mortality problem in New Zealand today,” he said.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29336, 15 October 1960, Page 16
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