HEALTH OF THE MAORIS.
CONDITIONS IMPROVING. [BY - TELEG&AFH.—SPECIAL REPORTER.] WELLINGTON. Friday. Generally speaking, the health of the Maoris has been better during the past year than in .the previous year, according to the report of Dr. Buck, director of the division of Maori hygiene, issued with the 4 anc<al report' of the Health Department. fEe states that typhoid fever is b-coming less, with a lower mortality. This was largely due to the work done by the Maori district nurses, combined with there being Jess obstruction by the Maoris to hospital treatment. The report' added that the subsidised medical officers had been reduced in number. It was time that the Maori paid for his medical attention, and that the medical man took his chance" of collecting bad debts from tho Maori as well as thr pakeha. In districts where subsidies were not given the natural adjustment took place long ago. Medical supplies were still supplied to native schools in moderation as regards quantity and variety. In isolated districts distant from a medical man, stock medicines often tided patients l over an anxious time, and the native school teachers had been ever ready to attend to the health of their settlements
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18197, 16 September 1922, Page 10
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