REPORTS FROM THE NORTH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17026, 6 December 1918, Page 6

REPORTS FROM THE NORTH.

RAPID IMPROVEMENT.

MAORIS SERIOUSLY AFFECTED. [DT TELEGRAPH.— CORRESPONDENT.]

KAWAKAWA. Thursday. The disease fa still raging in 'the North, though it appears to nave almost spent itself in district* south of Kawakawa. Reports from Mangonui and Hokianga are to the effect that in these areas the worst is over, and that the position is rapidly improving. In the Bay of Islands 'County there are still a great number of cases. It is impossible at present to get complete returns, hut the following , summary is somewhere near the mark. In Tapuhi district there have been about fifty cases, and four of ' these, all Europeans*, were fatal In Motatau, Opahi district, most of the cases have reached the convalescent stoffp, Practically th& whole population, about 150, went down, and 30 died i» The • otirarft > Ngapipitoa district, like Molateu, had the disease in a virulent form. In the Oromahoe native settlement 100 Maoris were ill, and there were 10 deaths. Several deaths have occurred among the Maoris at Waimate North, out of about 40.cases Jo far reported. There are 43 cases reported at the Maori settlement of Ngawha, and four have died. At Kaikohe there are 30 cases still in the European hospital, and 23 in. a native hospital, some of them being convalescents. Two deaths have (Occurred there. fv*At the native settlement at Waiomai, 50 cases have been treated, seven ending fatally. There have been two deaths at Taumarere, both Maoris, out of 22 cases reported. At Karctu, out of 11 cases, all Maoris, two died. A number of cases are reported from Purcrua and other native leltiemonts around the foreshore of, the Bay of Islands, and eight deaths are reported to have taken. place. In Kawakawa and Waipuna 10 whites and nine natives have died. '

POSITION AT MAUNGATUBOTO.

THIRTEEN CASES REPORTED.

Our Maungaturoto correspondent writes that an erroneous impression of the state of affairs in that districfi has been created by the telegram sent to the Prime Minister by Mr. T. Coates on Tuesday. So far only one death, that of Mr. Coatos's son, has occurred. There are' about 13 patients, all of whom are progressing satisfactorily. Dr. Sands and several nurses are in attendance. In addition to Mrs. FinlaysonY residence, the public school has been fitted up as a hospital, and the epidemic is well in hand.