ARE MAORIS WEAK?
CONSUMPTION SUSCEPTIBILITY DOCTOR ANSWERS QUERY A question "whether Maoris were specially susceptible to tubcrculosb; was i)ut to Dr. C. McDowell by a member of the audience after a lecture on the disease which ho gave under the auspices: of the Auckland Institute. Dr. McDowell replied that it had baen long assumed that the Maoris, like other primitive people, were susceptible because of the recent introduction of the disease anion*?, them. However, the X-ray examination of numbers of young Maori recruit? in Auckland had shown 1 bat a relatively large proportion of them had been infected with tuberculosis, but they had successfully resisted the disease and were in good health.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 124, 2 July 1941, Page 2
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112ARE MAORIS WEAK? Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 124, 2 July 1941, Page 2
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