TYPHOID IN THE NORTH

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 74, 18 June 1927, Page 1

TYPHOID IN THE NORTH

ELEVEN CASES NURSES DOWN IN HOSPITAL INFECTION FROM MAORI Cix cases of typhoid, involving . three nurses, in the Whanqarei District Hospital, and another five cases in one Maori family in the Bay of Islands <feave been reported to the District Health Office, during the past we£k. The original of the Whangarei cases was that of a male native from the same county but from a different locality from the Maori family which has been stricken. Before this case Was recognised on Wednesday last . three nurses fell victims on June 10, June 13, and June 15. Other cases are thgse of a child and a young 6woman aged 19. Thfc.cases so far have been of a mild type. i>r. Turbott, ot- the Auckland District Health Office, has gone to Whangarei to investigate all the cases. A few typhoid cases have arisen in the Auckland Health District lately following the return of Maoris from gatherings at Ratana and from these meetings under doubtfully hygienic conditions the . disease has probably been conveyed by carriers throughout the province. At one time, stated Dr. Chesson, medical officer of health, to-day, typhoid was a continuous disease among the natives, due to the lack of sanitation, and inhygienic methods of preparing food, but by continual campaigns of anti-typhoid inoculation the disease has been checked except for isolated cases, which whenever they occur are immediately followed by an inoculation drive among the natives iy the district. Every Maori living under native conditions should be inoculated against typhoid, said Dr.- Chesson.