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FOUR SEVERE MAORI CASES. (For Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 21. News was received at the District Health Office to-day that three very severe oases had been, discovered amongst the Maoris at Parawera, near To Awamutu, these being declared to be true smallpox, even to the marked characteristic odour. Six less severe cases were reported from the. same place. The death of a native patient was Teported from Mangonui, where other cases had been isolated. Further cases notified (all amongst Maoris) were as follows: —Matapuna (near Taumarunui) 1, Kawhia 1 (a contact with Auckland cases); Okoroire District 1; Taurajigi 1 In Okoroiro district vaccination, isolation, and quarantine, have been enforced
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12889, 22 July 1913, Page 5
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