THE SMALL POX.
Numerous and frequent as our warnings to the native population of these islands have been, we feel it an imperative duty yet again to entreat them to use every human precaution to guard themselves and their families against the ravages of this deadly and loathsame disorder:—the only menus, —and that is no second duty—offered to them is Vaccination. This (as we have again and again performed upon themselves and lie taught to employ it oil others, at the Colonial Hospital. ]Jy the interest wo feel for you, and by the love we boar you, wo entreat you, oh natives, not to trifle with this caution. We have been compelled to return to this subject because of the tidings just received from the Sandwich Islands. The inhabitants of those islands arc precisely similar to the inhabitants of New Zealand. The Small-I'ox has lately crept in among tlicni and it lias swept them from the earth by thousands. In Honolulu alone, upwards of 5000 were
carried off. Indeed so numerous were Uie deaths, that it was willi the utmost difficulty the corpses could lie interred. The duly was a dangerous and a most revolting one; and it was only accomplished by employing convicts to dig largo trenches and so get rid of the frightful heaps of festering corruption* The King also considered it necessary to burn down many of the infected dwellings, in order to purify the city from a pestilence which threatened to exterminate his nativeborn subjects. We have once more placed the danger of this dreadful contagion before you. Oh be wiseand employ the human means thai have been provided to preserve you from its influence.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VI, Issue 136, 9 March 1854, Page 2
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279THE SMALL POX. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VI, Issue 136, 9 March 1854, Page 2
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