HOSPITAL CONFERENCE.
HEALTH OF THE NATIVES. Wellington, June 28. At the Hospital and Charitable \id Boards’ conference to-day, a discussion took place on the health of the native race. Mr. Powell (Waipiro) moved.(l) that legislation be passed as soon as possible for transferring the control of contagious diseases from the Department of Native Affairs to the Public Health officers; (2) that in order to conserve the Maori race, the question oi maternity and infant mortality be dealt with directly by responsible officers of the Hospital Board. As a further guarantee of this the native race should be brought into conformity with Europeans under the Registration Act, and this should he applicable, not only to deaths, but to births and marriages; (3) that nurses should work among the Maoris in order to instruct tnem in accordance with European methods of living, both in sanitation and health.
After hearing the statement as to what the Department had done and intended doing, the mover withdrew clauses one and three and clause two was carried unanimously.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 164, 28 June 1911, Page 8
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