CHILDREN DYING FAST.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 948, 15 October 1910, Page 9

CHILDREN DYING FAST.

' j-;-.*.-' :'V: i'-fyrr'- ;'i /; ■ . 'WHOOPING COUGH AT THE' ■!. j ISLANDS. ; "Children-are'dying- in great'.numbora , j . all around Rarotouga, , a Dominion -representative , :\va's ■ : iiiformcd bV' llr. C. A. Griffiths, V.who .liaiS ;just,.'.ro-,'. : . turned to Wellington from (lm l-dands. ! The cause is .whooping cough, ind it is ;■ supposed ; that the trouble was mtro- ' i duced by passengers;:from;Tahiti' I - Mr. Griffiths .said -that the ;medjcal;'of-: . / fleers there would allow aliv vouug .- . people—who' tliey I thought, might bo- . 1 come Subject to the go io' tho other islands 1 -for: fear of spread- fl i ihg it .there. ■ ■ There' is a mission ischool'"- [ at .Rarotohga, . .and vtlio" mission' :yakht, -'i:! 1 "John AVilliains,". had arrived to take " many of the' children' : hack toV-tlipii' homes on the' outer islands, when 'th® j ■ doctor'heard of their- intended depart') . tureV The •: children' were : alreadvgl' i aboard tho vessel, but the-medical mail 'H ; refused-to sanction, their leaving; xt ■' was. awkward: for the scholars to bo 1- prevented- going, homo foi- their-.-holi- } i days, but tlie natives are pleased-now ; as ■ the doctor's • aetioil is -regarded as" having kept the outer islands free " 0 f • ) what has become a- 1 scourge at R3 ro . ; ■ ; ■ tohga, 1 Just before Mr.'Griffiths loft he went ■ • to tho house, of a native,' slid 1 called out a-good-bye';'. ; 'Husht' l ' 'wio dark^nian,' -fray- child hits ■ Ml, On ' his way to the- boat t - Griffiths looked m nt, the homo of'nri.^ ;! , other native , friend, and said . "l am very sad, ! ' ,was tlio RarotonMnVlil . first remark, "my child is dead.". The , kh -.Rte.': Mr - Griffiths'■ understands,'# l is fearful. i