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Kōrero: Epidemics

Typhoid camp, 1924

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Nurses and others stand in front of tents next to a simple wooden house in a remote area.

Camps were set up near isolated Māori communities to quarantine and treat infected people when infectious diseases struck. This is a typhoid camp at Maungapōhatu in Te Urewera in 1924. The women in white are nurses.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

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

Reference: 1/2-030884

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Geoff Rice, Epidemics – The typhoid era, 1810s to 1890s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/27783/typhoid-camp-1924 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Geoff Rice, i tāngia i te 30 March 2011.