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of this was new ground to the Maori, who lives a communal form of life, crowded together and sharitl common food utensils, clothes, towels, and bedding togetner, and snaring is a daily habrt in Natives living a communal form of life, and the Maori has a custom caUed " honS » of flattemng nose against nose as a salutation. The regular visitation by the nurse didTav l, woiSil effect in advertising tuberculous homes, so much so that some of the patients oomSSi hrf E examination, radiograms and sputum tests. If proven tuberculous, these new added o the house'hoW?? CheOk WaS k6pt ° f tte tealth ° f aU ° OntaCtS ' adults and cMldren > » the tuberculous X-4 a) ch P eck y Wai SSffiTbThSf "' * *"" infecSn AmUal 7 ° f C ° ntaCtS were made ' to detect an 7 early active (c) In some cases of poverty, extra food or clothes were arranged for the contacts i. it was expected that this tuberculous home supervision would fail to achieve the necessarv response in some cases, that there would be some unteachables, and some incorrigMes Where the teaching could not or would not be assimilated, some further form of segregation would be reauired It was planned originally to have a farm colony or settlement for these case! So for it ia S not bee i Erw y itiinTe e clX h Palt ° f tie SCWe ' althoUgll the lleCeSSary knd be - k£>2 Eesults and Putuee Plans. The field follow-up work described above has now been in operation three complete vears TW stanf the na P tur°e eS f ĪĪ * ™ ">' ** «**»»& ~M « Maori popuktion cL'e to UnSstand the nature of tuberculosis, its cause, and its method of spread. The first year was one ofZwil struggle, with failures, but enough teaching successes to justify decided optimim TheTJcond vea was one of rapid Maori comprehension, of consolidation, and universal acceptance tC 1 A year has shown the scheme grafted into the normal life of the oomnmnitTubemfou cases ar bS segregated within their own homes, with occasional use of the base hospital in pS£ casesfSSS reasons. They are being barrier nursed, and contacts know how to protect tnemselves as far as i possible without absolute isolation from the case. It has been a surprisingly but happy feature L the poor and overcrowded tuberculous homes, to find the teaching assimilated and with double sets of everything, one for the patient looked after separately? and another communal Tt shared the contacts. As the economic standard improves, as it has done generally SSSSh£jJ a wider influence and bearing fruit in individualism in personal and family hygiene g ltm somewhat early to attempt to evaluate this field demonstration of tuberculous care and contact years 23 old cases have died, and 7 new ones developed, two of these being fatal The morbiStv rate for all forms of tuberculosis at the close of 1936 was 32-1 per 1 000 morbidity-rate Of the seven new cases one was an adult chronic case and six were children four of these in «,«!» and be a great help in those one-roomed homes where the case has to be LrrierTursed ffj They will be of permanent material, with three-way ventilation, of the " knock-down » type bolted

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