TYPHOID AMONGST MAORIS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12616, 20 November 1911, Page 2

TYPHOID AMONGST MAORIS.

(To tbo Editor of tlie Herat d. )

Sir,— l am glad to see that at last the health authorities are moving m the matter of typhoid among the Maoris m this district: For more : thaji ' twelve months it. haft beeii present . m nearly every Maori ,s.Vttlemei/t around (Sisßorne. Of the 117 cases reported 'in' lhe . .public! aiid private hospitals m Gisborne m th« year, half of these cases, have beert Alaoris, and no Onp knows how many cases have occurred m tho settlements Which have never been reported. The Maoris understand very little about sanitation, and as m the majority of these canes '..'there has been 'no disinfection of clothes : or anything else, 'the dangr to; European as well as Maori has been Very considerable.' At last the GOvevnmettt Has sent a nurse into the [district to examine arid repfbtfci It would have been better had it been done a year ago. A M aofi assistant has been .pWJJri* ( ifeetl fo go about with her, but has not , arrived ' yet/ .. Now that practical steps have beeii taken,- H la lioped 'tha"t every j facility will be giveit for' tha work"' to be j thoroughly and emfcftnfff flo M ;' both W the interests' of the ' Maoris' aiid Muffr peans. — lam. etc.", •••••■ -•■ I P. W; CHATTERtm