DEADLY CLIMATE OF CHINA
DUNEDIN DOCTOR’S EXPERIENCES. RETURN FROM MISSION HOSPITAL By Telegraph.—Press Association;" Wellington, Last Night. Dr. C. E. North, Dunedin, accompaned. by his wife and child, arrived at Wellington by the Maunganui from Sydney, to-day on the way home from China. For the past two years Dr; North has been stationed at the New Zealand Presbyterian Missions hospital at Kong-Chuen, twelve miles north of Canton. Last year 2400 out-patients and 1010 .in-patients were dealt with at the institution, said Dr. North in an ijiterr view. Some of the patients came from villages 60 or 70 miles away for treatment. The climate was very unhealthy, very cold in winter and very hot in summer, and it took as heavy toll of Europeans as any other climate in the world.
Most of the Chinese who came to New Zealand were from nearby districts, Pang-woo and Ah-woo. said D.r North.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1930, Page 7
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