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An outbreak of diphtheria at Onerahi proved stubborn and difficult to control by the normal isolation and swabbing methods. Mass immunization of pre-school and school children quickly brought control and termination of the epidemic. Health Education. School Medical Officers have lectured widely to children, to parent groups and gatherings, to Maori groups, to mothers' meetings, women's institutes, School Committees, and teachers' training colleges. One district sponsors mothercraft classes, another a teaching clinic in a Maori pa. Officers are alive to the need for adult and child health education. Plans to enter the field of health education in a systematic way have been elaborated during the latter part of the year, and it is hoped to use the air, the printed word, films, and exhibits in furthering health education in 1941. H. B. Turbott, Director, Division of School Hygiene.

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