TYPHOID OUTBREAK

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19315, 4 May 1937, Page 4

TYPHOID OUTBREAK

MAORIS AT WAIMANA CASES IN HOSPITAL INOCULATI ON CAMPAIGN Several cases of typhoid fever, admitted from Maori settlements in the Waimana area, have coma under treatment in, hospital in the Bay of Plenty during the past week, and am intensive campaign to prevent the spread of this disease, so destructive among the native people, has been launched by the Health Department. Officers of the department on the spot comprise a district nurse and a.district health inspector, who have been accorded full co-operation by the'elders of the Maori settlements 'in th'eir. efforts to check, the disease. Inoculation ..against typhoid has been administered, tb a large number of Maori residents of the Waimana and neighbouring areas, the ordeal having been cheerfully undergone by practically all who have been given the opportunity. One incident of the inoculation cam : paign has succeeded particularly well in arousing interest among those most affected by the risk of disease. At one of the Bay of Plenty townships on a recent evening, native patrons of the entertainment were gathered in substantial numbers, and the district nurse took the opportunity of putting .before; .theni the desirability of being inDcufated before returning home. Well over'so accepted 'the advice offered,- and the injections were made on the spot. A better chance of securing a wholesale effect could not have been presented to the health officials.