NEWS OF THE DAY
Deeds of Maoris “Because of the deeds of Maoris who have gone on battlefields and in many cases made the supreme sacrifice, the Maoris of New Zealand have attained world ,fame,” said the Methodist Maori missioner, Sister Arini Hobbs, at the WanganuiTaranaki Methodist Synod. She was paying a tribute to the help given the Dominion’s war efi'ort bv Wanganui and Ratana Maoris.
Life-Saving: Drugs A message from London this week announced that the use of the new drug sulphapyridine had reduced fatalities from cerebro-spinal meningitis—spotted fever—to 33 per cent in 1939, compared with 66 Der cent in Ihe years 1934 to 1937. Referring to this, the acting-medical superintendent of the Auckland Hospital, Dr. C. B. Gilberd, said that the sulphanilamide group of drugs, which included sulphapyridine, was in general hospital and private practice use in Ne\V Zealand. Wonderful results were obtained; cases which formerly had been regarded as hopeless had quickly responded to them; and there could be no doubt that the use of the group had definitely reduced fatalities. The four main conditions for which they were used included meningitis and pneumonia.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20957, 3 December 1942, Page 2
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