CASES OF TYPHOID
MAORIS RETICENT
OUTBREAK IN TARANAKI \
I (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAWERA, January 18. Suspicion has been aroused in the district that illnesses among Maoris are being suppressed from the health authorities, and that patients are bcii^g secluded in their homes or removed elsewhere. The outbreak of typhoid at Foxton is believed to have some connection with an outbreak at Otakeho, 15 miles from Hawcra, but owing to the stolid reticence of the Maoris, it is .not known definitely whether carriers have passed from Otakeho settlement to Foxton. A further case of typhoid among Maoris at Otakeho j was admitted to hospital lust night. This makes the tenth patient since December 27, and four have die.d. The r,eason 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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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 16, 20 January 1936, Page 14
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161CASES OF TYPHOID Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 16, 20 January 1936, Page 14
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