MAORIS AND TYPHOID
Suspicion That Illnesses Are Being Suppressed By Telegraph—Press Association. Hawera, January tB. Suspicion has been aroused in the district that illnesses among Maoris are being suppressed from the health authorities, aud that patients are being secluded iu their homes or removed elsewhere. The outbreak of typhoid at Fox ton is believed to have some connection with an outbreak at Otakeho, 15 miles from Hawera, but owing to the stolid reticence of Iho Maoris it is not known definitely whether carriers have passed from Otakeho settlement to Foxton. A further ease of typhoid among Maoris at was admitted to hospital last night.' This makes the tenth patient since December 27, and four have died. The reason for this greater proportion of deaths to patients in the Otakeho outbreak compared with the original epidemic in September last, when one ward at the hospital had to be set aside for treatment and observation, is attributed to suppression by the Maoris.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 98, 20 January 1936, Page 10
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160MAORIS AND TYPHOID Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 98, 20 January 1936, Page 10
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