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… and not an accurate measure of actual health. The ‘obesity epidemic’ An alarming trend was the rapid increase in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Body shape and dieting
… closely associated in relief work during the 1918 influenza epidemic and were frequent visitors in each other's homes. …
Type: Biography
… soldier, but he was to die in England in the 1918 influenza epidemic. During the war King had been invited by the …
Type: Biography
… army appointed him a health lecturer. In the 1918 influenza epidemic he became a local hero in Upper Hutt at the …
Type: Biography
… – first manifested itself during the influenza epidemic of 1918, when she worked with the sick. For the …
Type: Biography
… health was a pressing concern for 19th-century Cantabrians. Epidemics of infectious diseases took a heavy toll. Built on …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… of the women's committee. During the 1918 influenza epidemic Taylor was in charge of a hostel set up for …
Type: Biography
… of money to the cause. After Irāia died in the influenza epidemic of 1918, Kaihau assumed a matriarchal role in her …
Type: Biography
… caused the Wellers to import some heavy arms. In 1835 an epidemic of measles shockingly reduced the local Maori …
Type: Biography
… impact on Māori communities of the 1918 influenza epidemic – the Māori death rate was more than eight times …
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Part of story: Māori housing – te noho whare
… employed at Featherston Military Camp, where the influenza epidemic cost the lives of one sister and 75 officers and …
Type: Biography
… in New Zealand, Harry succumbed to influenza in the 1918 epidemic. He was transferred to home service and when …
Type: Biography
… killed in accidents at work, women died in childbirth, and epidemics killed babies and young children. They also …
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Part of story: Death and dying
… pupils were thwarted by floods in 1938, and by an influenza epidemic in 1939, he held a successful school for over 200 …
Type: Biography
… New Plymouth Recreation Grounds. In the severe influenza epidemic of 1891–92 he offered to travel in Taranaki to …
Type: Biography
… an important part of his life. During the 1918 influenza epidemic he organised a relief committee in Lyall Bay. He …
Type: Biography
… succumbed to disease, in particular influenza and measles epidemics in 1838 and 1840. A bloody encounter The French …
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Part of story: Chatham Islands
… border control, New Zealand largely avoided the cocaine epidemic which swept Europe and the US in the 1970s and …
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Part of story: Drugs
… local Māori required nursing assistance during a typhoid epidemic. For the next two months she worked there, and at …
Type: Biography
… to a call for medical help. During the 1918 influenza epidemic she nursed many Māori without, it is said, any loss …
Type: Biography