Health and Medical Care

1892   Regional

Health good, no typhoid epidemics as in North Auckland and East Coast (Wilkinson, AJHR 1892 G3)

1893   Kopu

A case of typhoid admitted to Thames hospital (Thames Advertiser, 4 July 1893)

Kirikiri

"Great amount of sickness (La Grippe and a kind of low fever)' (Native School teacher, BAAA 1001 285c)

1895   Whangamata

Typhoid outbreak among Maori-5 deaths, 14 sick, no medicines or doctor available (TN. Wright, Waihi doctor, JI 1895/1423—see case study paras 5.38,39 below)

1897   Manaia

`Several deaths from causes I cannot fathom. The children die in a few hours. The Natives, too, are on the brink of starving, all their potatoes having been consumed during the tangis.' (Walter, Native School teacher, BAAA 1001 z96d)

`The place literally swarms with children but the mortality is very great owing to the want of ordinary care.' (Walter, ji 1906/396)

`Haki-haki is very prevalent' (Walter, ji 1906/396)

1898   Manaia

`Here as at other places they are suffering greatly from scarcity of food following the very dry weather.' (Pope, BAAA IOW 297a)

`Several cases ... of influenza, inflammation of the lungs and syphilis' (Walter, ji 1906/396)

Crops poor or destroyed for last two to three years—'in spite of semi-starvation

I have had only one death ... against eight in the similar period last year' (Walter, J1 1906/396)

1899 Manaia

`Epidemic of confluent chicken pock' (Walter, BAAA 1001 297a)

23-25 deaths in two years from pulmonary complaints, especially phthisis, `infantile diarrhoea' and dyspepsia, caused by poor housing and poor diet, early marriages and inter-marriages and such 'remedies' as cold water treatment for fever (S.A. Bull, Coromandel doctor, JI 1903/1556)

1900 Manaia

The mortality has fallen from 25% to about 7% and the general health of the Natives is much improved' (Walter, ji 1906/396)

1901 Manaia and Whangapoua

Health worsening due to activities of 'Maori doctors' (Walter, ji 1901/1138)

19oz   Te Kerepihi

School attendance halved by influenza (J. Hope, Native School teacher, BAAA

1001 596a)

Manaia

More than 5o cases of a 'new type of influenza accompanied by purging and vomiting' (Walter, BAAA roar 297b)

1903   Te Kerepihi

`Much sickness' (Pope, AJHR 1903 E2)

One case of diphtheria but no spread (Hope, BAAA 1001 596a)

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