224 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



Again South Australia and New Zealand go hand-in-hand 

 with municipal abattoirs, the only efficient method of dealing 

 with diseased meat. 



In many of the colonies dairy inspection is anything but 

 satisfactory. To quote a Victorian writer on the subject, 

 "Very few Councils have appointed veterinary inspectors, 

 dairy inspection being often but one of the duties of an offi- 

 cer whose functions are as multifarious as those of ' Pooh 

 Bah ' of operatic fame." 



Spitting. 



New South Wales local bodies have power to deal with 

 this nuisance, and Sydney has with great success enacted by- 

 laws against street spitting, and so strictly carried them out 

 that their success in purifying the condition of the pavements 

 is astonishing. Efforts are being made to prevent spitting in 

 tramways, trains, and public vehicles of all kinds. 



Queensland has similar powers to New South Wales, and 

 Brisbane has municipal by-laws against street spitting. The 

 railway authorities have also passed by-laws against spitting, 

 which, however, they have failed to carry out. 



Victoria and South Australia have no legislation against 

 spitting. 



Tasmania has the pride of place in the colonies in this 

 matter, as Hobart and Launceston, in 1896, first of all the 

 colonies made by-laws against spitting in public places. 



West Australian local bodies have powers, if willing, to 

 make by-laws on the subject. 



Sanatoria. 



New South Wales has a hospital for consumptives near the 

 Blue Mountains. It has forty beds, and is maintained en- 

 tirely by public benevolence. Incurable cases are not treated 

 there, many such cases being treated for a time in the general 

 hospitals. Incurable pauper cases are treated in the Govern- 

 ment asylums, and many sufferers from advanced phthisis are 

 cared for in their last days at Saint Vincent de Paul's Hospice 

 for the Dying in Sydney. The Government, however, has 

 promised to take the matter up, and to erect immediately a 

 temporary wooden sanatorium, pending the erection of a per- 

 manent structure. 



Queensland has two sanatoria for consumptives, one in 

 the Darling Downs, of fifty-five beds, and another larger one 

 on the Diamantina. 



South Australia has a sanatorium for fifty persons near 

 Adelaide, and the Government intends shortly to provide ac- 

 commodation for incurable cases. 



