Health for the Maori : a manual for use in native schools / by James H. Pope.

  • Pope, James H.
Date:
1884
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Credit: Health for the Maori : a manual for use in native schools / by James H. Pope. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are bred, or how they can be prevented. The whole thing may l)c stated thus, in very few words : AMien people were dying off so very ranch faster than they do now, they ivere much dirtier in every way, much more drunken, much greedier, much more careless, much more foolish, and much more ignorant than they are now. CHAPTEE II. How THE Pakeha has fouoht with Disease AND, TO A GREAT EXTENT, CONQUERED IT. In the first chapter wc learnt that in past times the Europeans used to die off as the jMaoris do now,—not quite so fast, hut very nearly ; if dis- ease had done quite as had u ork amongst the white people as it is doing amongst the Maoris, there would not he one left; the white man would have died out. Instead of that, they increased in number, hut very, very slowly, just as the Maoris do now in places where they do not drink very much, and where the}- work, and live much in the same way as the white man does. In this chapter we arc to learn how the pakeha has been able to heat down disease, so that he can live twice as long as he did formerly, and how it is that in some places the people increase so fast that their number is doubled everv twenty-five years.