TYPHOID AMONG MAORIS
POSITION IN THE NORTH.
"NOW WELL UNDER CONTROL."
The statement that typhoid has been more than usually prevalent among the Maoris in the North during the past five months, but that the epidemic is now well under control, was made by the district health officer, Dr. Hughes, on Saturday. There had been an especially larce number of cases near Whangape, but the disease has now been almost stamped out there, and the hospital has been closed. Native patients were now under treatment in the Department's hospitals at Taupo, Otangaroa. Pupuke, and Whirinaki. The doctor said there were two cases at Taupo, and two at Otangaroa. A tohunga had been rather active at Pupuke, where a number of sufferers from typhoid had been hidden in the bush for a time, and then dipped in a creek, with the result that when they were at length brought in for treatment their temperatures were abnormally high. There were 11 cases under treatment at Whirinaki, where one death had occurred, and four of the patients were convalescent. The natives, said Dr. Hughes, had given a certain amount of trouble bv taking fever patients about the country, and there had been several deaths.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16051, 18 October 1915, Page 5
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