Influenza and Tohungalsm
(Per Prtss Association.) GISBOHNE, June 0. Influenza is working havoc among tho natives on the Bast Coast'. Five deaths wero reported last week, and ihe resulting tangis are likely to bring about more. Toiiungaism is also rife, but alienations that patients bad been plunged into icy cold water were not sustained at the inquest held. A verdict was returned that the deaths were probably duo to natural causes. All that the Maori witnesses could be got. to admit was that a Maori tohunga had ordered the removal of patients' boots when within the precincts of the pah. They denied the use of any other method of treatment except prayer. The natives had been going about without boots, and | submitting themselves to bo prayed over, for fully a fortnight, during inclement weather when the ground was cold and tho surroundings of the pah in a very slushy condition. The jury, in a rider, condemned the unhealthy conditions attending nalive gatherings. 11 is further reported that eight other natives had died at Waiapu, under similar circumstances.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 131, 7 June 1904, Page 2
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177Influenza and Tohungalsm Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 131, 7 June 1904, Page 2
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