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Story: Bay of Plenty region

Typhoid camp

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Typhoid camp

These modest tents were the only facilities for treating a typhoid outbreak in Te Urewera in 1924. Typhoid fever was always a threat in remote localities that lacked reliable means for separating water supply and human waste.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Sister Annie Henry Collection (PAColl-6098)

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Malcolm McKinnon, Bay of Plenty region – Success: 1900s to 1930s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/5596/typhoid-camp (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 August 2016.