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European impact on Maori Health

European impact on Maori Health. By Ben, Daniel, Fiona, Nathan and Su Jin . Contents. 1. Overall Health 2. Scrofula 3. Venereal Diseases (STD) 4. Rewarewa & tiko tiko . Overall health.

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European impact on Maori Health

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  1. European impact on Maori Health By Ben, Daniel, Fiona, Nathan and Su Jin

  2. Contents 1. Overall Health 2. Scrofula 3. Venereal Diseases (STD) 4. Rewarewa & tiko tiko

  3. Overall health Before the Europeans came to New Zealand Maori still had diseases but they used religious beliefs of spirits to understand their ailment. When the Europeans came they brought more diseases with them. The consequence of this caused the Maori population to drop; which meant their next generation had less people. Some of the diseases were fatal as Maori had never experienced things like measles, smallpox and other types of diseases unknown to their immune systems.

  4. Scrofula Scrofula is a type of tuberculosis specific to the lymph nodes. This in turn caused swelling and sores in the neck area, eventually deficits the immune system and attacks bones and tendons; cripples the victim and finally kills them. Scrofula is spread through contaminated milk from a cow with the disease. The disease could have came from cows that were on board the Endeavour to provide meat and milk for the journey.

  5. Scrofula

  6. Venereal diseases (STD) Venereal diseases cause women to become infertile, which lowers the population, and these diseases may kill people too. Missionaries found that Maori girls started prostitution as young as 8, which further led to more women with venereal diseases, therefore stuntedthe growth of the Maori population.

  7. Other diseases: Rewharewha and tiko tiko Shipping journals are good sources of information, as they carry the details of events a long time ago that we may otherwise not find out about. From these journals we know that in 1790 a respiratory disease called rewharewha broke out in Mercury bay, killing many members of the hapu. Also, in 1795, in the bay of islands, an illness called tiko tiko broke out. Maori described it as spreading very fast- "like fire among the flax"

  8. Overall impact These diseases had an extremely negative impact on the Maori populace and damaged their numbers badly.There was no cure for most diseases at the time- both Maori and Europeans relied on superstition, magic and religion to try and relieve the symptoms of illness. Some herbs help relieve pain or ease infections but modern cures weren’t available until the 1900’s. And new weapons such as guns would kill more people in war. All these diseases and new technology decimated the Maori population to a fraction of what it was.

  9. Bibliography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_people#Decline_and_revival Face toFace text book.

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