DISEASE AMONG MAORIS.
' A MYSTERIOUS OUTBREAK. | [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] ' * :■'.'". ' V Whangapjei, Monday, The district health 'officer, Mr. , H. O. Ryland, ■, returned to Whangarei to-day from a visit to Waima, where he proceeded to investigate a mysterious epidemic among the Maoris. He found on his arrival there that 20 natives were affected, the symptoms being similar to typhoid ; fever, >:. with a high temperature. A peculiar feature of the outbreak was that, the' patients whose cases appeared to be the most serious, recovered -almost immediately. '■ *No ' deaths have < occurred, and the outbreak is now subsiding.. Outbreaks of disease are not uncommon in the. Maori settlements throughout the north, and the. cause in the majority "of cases ■iftsV bad hygeinic surroundings and the practice •of drinking swamp water on the ;gumjEelds. , y ., - . _~, . * '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14807, 10 October 1911, Page 7
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