INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
NOTIFICATION BY NATIVES. PRESENT UNSATISFACTORY POSITION. The necessity for the compulsory notification of diseases amongst natives was urged by Mr W. G. Belton at yesterday’s meeting of the Patea Hospital Board.
Mr Belton said he lived near a pa, and he knew that an epidemic of measles was at present, making itself felt amongst the natives. He had rung up Dr. Harvey and had asked him what was the position with regard to the notification of infectious diseases by natives, and the doctor had informed him that such notification was not compulsory. The doctor said he had been harping on the matter for some time, but he could get nothing done. Continuing, Mr Belton said that when he saw the report of the death of the native at Patea from infantile paralysis, and knowing the habits of the natives, he considered that the present position constituted a menace to jiublic health.
Mr Belton accordingly moved that the Health Department be asked to review’ the regulations with reference to notification of infectious diseases among natives with a view’ to making it compulsory to notify all infectious diseases, and' to deposit, a certificate of death before burial with the Registrar, as is the case with Europeans. The resolution wms seconded and carried unanimously.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 February 1925, Page 6
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