COOK ISLANDERS
INCREASE IN POPULATION Like their close relatives the Maoris, the native inhabitants of the Cook Islands are increasing in population. Each of the seven censuses taken since the annexation of the group by New Zealand in 1901 has shown an increase. The report submitted to the Government in 1942 by the local Administration gave the figure as 13,962, an increase of 249 during the year. Under special statutory provision the islanders are provided gratuitously with medical and surgical aid. As a result of that policy the population is particularly free from most of the usual tropical diseases. Leprosy and tuberculosis, however, have both occasioned the authorities considerable afhxiety. Of recent years particular attention has been directed toward child welfare, resulting in a marked lowering of the infant death-rate. This work has been supervised by Dr. E. P. Ellison, a member of a well-known South Island Maori family.
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Waikato Times, Volume 196, Issue 22549, 6 January 1945, Page 6
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