HEALTH OF MAORIS
sifccisss in SfiSaSttliSF ’’ • r U .. jr.: 1 v»strr*a**v v WORK Mr. J; K. Horrtblcw. chairman of the I Palmerston North Hospital Board, interviewed- iii connection with the health, ox ’ the Maori people in tha-btard’s area, said that perhaps no Hospital. board in the Dominion was doing more- to promote the health of the Mabri people than the Pglincrston-Nbri h board. Seven district nurses wore employed, and .every pit or Maori settlement from Pcidknisariki.in tile south to the borders of Uunterville in the north was visited regularly, and where possible M'c.itmeiif wife given arid’the more serious cases removed to the liasc libsjiital or em»terinm, , paid Mr. Hornblow. Mach' success hod attended the hoard’s policy, and the Minister of Health and the department-dm<t given practical assistance.!- Tlie—- ; prejudice against, hospital: ireatnieiiuJS'as diminishing. Tlie services and. attend- . aiiec of the nurses at the pas wre~lw»-- ■ ing, a wrindt-efullv beneficial caeetT.amt ■ Hie visits- ol v the nurses were now. weli coined. In many cases, however, skilled nursing and Hospital' treatment tod been : nullified by wrctcltcd housing-wmawons lin manyot' the pas. ' . Mr. IJorablow said lie whs pleased to ’ learn ihat-the 'Government was about to give hire StlbjePt- early coneiderhinm- ! ' aLik—A-a; 1
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19132, 29 September 1936, Page 3
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199HEALTH OF MAORIS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19132, 29 September 1936, Page 3
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