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… the diphtheria vaccine proved hard to reach. Severe polio epidemics in the 1940s and 1950s resulted in high … them. Lifestyle and behaviour or commercially-driven epidemics In the early 1970s, as infectious diseases … debates about the most effective ways to tackle these epidemics and whose responsibility it was to change personal …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Public health
… of board membership during and after the November influenza epidemic. She was an active member of the board's social … February 1919 to assist widows, widowers and orphans of the epidemic. During this time Jessie Aitken remained active in …
Type: Biography
… coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Parliament did not sit. An Epidemic Response Committee chaired by the leader of the … at the election of 2005, by which time the ‘party-hopping’ epidemic of the previous decade had subsided. A Labour-led …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Parliament
… committee that set up an emergency camp at Rangiotu when an epidemic broke out at Trentham Military Camp in 1915. In … on the emergency committee established during the influenza epidemic. Palmerston North was one of the first large …
Type: Biography
… challenges, the entire community’s continuing battle with epidemics took precedence in terms of health campaigns. … she cared for others in her community in the 1918 influenza epidemic, afterward adopting many children orphaned during …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Women’s health
… to New Zealand with their son Walter on the Brothers Pride. Epidemics swept the ship and 44 passengers died before the …
Type: Biography
… Nurse Maude closed the two camps. During the influenza epidemic, which began in November 1918, Nurse Maude was put … local newspaper called her 'the hardest worked woman of the epidemic'. With increasing age her amazing stamina …
Type: Biography
… steel. She worked as a volunteer nurse during the influenza epidemic of 1918, for which she was subsequently recognised …
Type: Biography
… in mind. In 1918 Janet Reid died, a victim of the influenza epidemic. On 26 March 1926, at Wharehuia near Stratford, …
Type: Biography
… at Delaware Bay; on one occasion, during a severe measles epidemic, he is said to have clashed with a tohunga over the …
Type: Biography
… the confinements of many local women. During the influenza epidemic in 1918 she took over the local hall and, using hot …
Type: Biography
… three children: Herbert Arthur, who died in the influenza epidemic of 1918, Rosa Gwendoline Colborne and Mabel Henley. …
Type: Biography
… home and those of the other settlers destroyed by fire. The epidemics that occurred in the overcrowded town were a …
Type: Biography
… as a volunteer for 12 months. During the 1918 influenza epidemic, in the absence of a local medical practitioner, …
Type: Biography
… 1895, from bronchitis following influenza (which was then epidemic). He was survived by his wife and three daughters. …
Type: Biography
… in 1908 and Glendining home in 1912. During the influenza epidemic of 1918–19 she established a convalescent home for …
Type: Biography
… 1949, and was chairman from 1934. During the 1918 influenza epidemic Nicholson acted as a night nurse at the school, …
Type: Biography
… was restructured in 1920, in the aftermath of the influenza epidemic of 1918, it included a Division of Maori Hygiene, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te hauora Māori i mua – history of Māori health
… a practice in Waimate. During the 1918 influenza epidemic, when her driver fell sick, she used a bicycle to …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: South Canterbury places
… less likely to seek treatment for this condition. Diabetes epidemic In 2006 a world expert on diabetes, Professor …
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Part of story: Pacific Island health