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This is a typhoid camp at Maungapōhatu in the Urewera in 1924. Māori typhoid patients were isolated and treated in this temporary hospital. Typhoid was a significant killer for Māori – in 1937 the Māori death rate from typhoid was 40 times that of Pākehā.
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