MEASLES AT WHAKATANE
i > DEATH OF YOUNG MAORI [bt telegraph—OWN correspondent] j\' WHAKATANE. Thursday Tho present outbreak of measles ? among children in tlio Whakatane disi' trict has been attended by one death. "■' s . that of a Maori, Hori Meremu Tiratuka, aged 18, of Paroa. At an inquest before the coroner, G. A. Brabant, relatives gnve evidence that 5 deceased went into the sea to gather . pipis. He was then apparently developing the infection. A chill followed and y lie gradually became worse and died. ' The coroner returned a verdict that r: ,464 th was the result of measles,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23060, 10 June 1938, Page 12
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