NATIVE EPIDEMICS.
POSITION ON EAST COAST. HOSPITAL BOARD PROTESTS. Press Assqcialion. GISBORNE, November 29. Regarding complaints made by the ex-Minister of Public Health (the Hon. G. W. Russell) as to inadequate arrangements made by the' Waiapu Hospital Board in connection with the Te Araroa epidemic, the members of the board slate that they sent a deputation to the department in May, 1917, and had since frequently requested a ministerial visit to look into the situation, without result. The board considered that it was the Government's duty to send trained, medical orderlies to cope with the I situation. The recurring epidemics were doubtless due to the conditions under which the Maoris live, and,' whilst the State passed legislation re- 1 quiring settlers to provide proper! quarters for shearers, it failed toi supervise Maori settlements, and thej board considered it unfair that the) cost of coping with these epidemics, should fall on the shoulders of the European settlers. Effective mea-; sures should be taken to stamp out the disease. I
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1808, 29 November 1919, Page 11
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168NATIVE EPIDEMICS. Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1808, 29 November 1919, Page 11
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