Nursing Among the Maoris
Besides the regular stations where the Native Health Nurses are at work, there are at the present time several camps in the North. At Kaikohe, in the Bay of Islands, Nurse Davison has been sent to nurse some small-pox patients. She will be helped by the Mission Nurse at Kaikohe.
At Whangaroa there is another typhoid camp starting with ten cases. Nurse Eleanor Chappell is in charge, and a probationer from Hokianga has been sent to help her.
Nurse Anderson is at Matakana, with cases of typhoid, and Nurse Gill has gone to join her ; Nurse Mataira having been taken to assist with some cases of the small-pox epidemic at Whakatane'
Nurse Dawson was busy finding out cases of enteric which have been hidden by the Maoris about Mataora Bay, near Waihi, and Nurse Elian Taare has been sent to nurse these, while Nurse Dawson returned to Thames to a small-pox case. At Kawa Kawa, a nurse has been sent to some smallpox cases.
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Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VI, Issue 3, 1 July 1913, Page 97
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168Nursing Among the Maoris Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VI, Issue 3, 1 July 1913, Page 97
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