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… 1835 Te Whakataupuka had died, probably in the measles epidemic which broke out in Murihiku after the arrival of …
Type: Biography
… Free Kindergarten in Christchurch. During the influenza epidemic at the end of the First World War she worked in …
Type: Biography
… Margaret’s mother had died in the post-war influenza epidemic. Hard times persisted through the 1920s. Jim …
Type: Biography
… and set up in private practice at Ngaruawahia. The smallpox epidemic of 1913 had a profound effect on his subsequent …
Type: Biography
… death in 1915. In January 1918, the year of the influenza epidemic, Grace started training as a nurse at Christchurch …
Type: Biography
… on the treatment of sick animals. During the 1913 smallpox epidemic she acted as agent for the Department of Public …
Type: Biography
… Women's Patriotic League. During the 1918 influenza epidemic she acted as president of the Auckland centre of …
Type: Biography
… Springs and supervised emergency measures in the influenza epidemic of November 1918. She was appointed an MBE in 1919. …
Type: Biography
… maternal mortality in childbirth. However, as the threat of epidemics receded – at least until the COVID-19 coronavirus …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Primary health care
… for nerves, and it was encouraged during the 1918 influenza epidemic as a preventive. In the late 1930s the appearance …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Smoking
… a local doctor who died saving lives during the 1918 flu epidemic, was memorialised. In Taranaki, a fine statue of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Memorials and monuments
… Corps. When they returned to New Zealand the influenza epidemic was at its height. At one stage Helen Cowie was the …
Type: Biography
… for members in the First World War and the influenza epidemic led to a rise in the 1920s, and by 1938 there were …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Men’s clubs
… Patriotic and War Relief Association. After the influenza epidemic struck in 1918, she established community kitchens …
Type: Biography
… Wellington on 13 November 1918, a victim of the influenza epidemic. He was survived by four children. Winifred …
Type: Biography
… volunteered for hospital duty; in 1918 during the influenza epidemic she paid daily visits to affected patients; and …
Type: Biography
… meningococcal disease increased sharply, which signalled an epidemic. Diseases associated with poverty, such as …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Child and youth health
… of the emergence of an obesity (and type 2 diabetes) epidemic since the 1970s. Nutrition Unhealthy diet is a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Health and society
… She also nursed a local family during the 1918 influenza epidemic, and worked to support a neighbour's unmarried …
Type: Biography
… group, including three of McLeod's sons, died in a typhoid epidemic, McLeod wrote to George Grey , governor of New …
Type: Biography