Other injuries included people putting limbs through windows, falls and burns, thermal mud in eyes and even pranks like slapping someone over the ear which caused a ruptured ear drum.
Staff also dealt with intoxicated patients, he said.
The busiest day in Taupo was January 1 with 70 visits in total.
Dr Freeman said overall numbers of presentations to emergency departments in Rotorua and Taupo for the holiday period were about 6 per cent higher than last year.
Before the holiday period started, the hospital asked people to keep visits to emergency departments for urgent cases.
Dr Freeman said local residents with minor conditions often apologised to him for going to the emergency department but said it was either too expensive to go elsewhere or their GP was closed.
Traditionally, the department experiences a quieter period between the winter peak and the festive season, but this didn't happen last year.
In July, the emergency department recorded its busiest month, treating an average of 94 people a day.
That month, 2910 people went through the department as the hospital was hit by the seasonal onslaught of winter bugs.
A report to a recent meeting of the health board said just over half of people who presented at the emergency department were self-referred.
About one in six of those presenting, or 15 per cent, were taken in by the ambulance service and about one in eight were referred by a GP or Lakes Primecare.
