ANAEMIA IN MAORIS
Need For Diet Improvement
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Nov. 29.
The importance of public health nurses emphasising to Maori matihera the need for careful attention to diet and extra intake of vitamins during pregnancy was emphasised today by an Auckland pediatrician. Dr. T. G. Fox.
Speaking on anaemia in Maori children ait the annual conference of about 40 public health nurses from the three Auckland health areas. Dr. Fox said: "The diet we find frequently among Maori families of milk, bread, and biscuits with very little meat, eggs, or vitamins, is not con-
ducive to excellent blood production during pregnancy." Public health nurses should play a major part in helping to remind Maori women constantly of correct diet, he said. Dr. Fox said that in talking to Maori women with children suffering from iron deficiency anaemia, by far the most common type of anaemia among Maori children, he got the impression that that the mothers did not seem to be very familiar with the importance of diet. "It's my impression they often haven’t had the instruction we think they’ve had,” he said.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30302, 30 November 1963, Page 2
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