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Victoria has the Austin Hospital for incurables, which has 

 a special wing set apart, for advanced cases of phthisis, con- 

 taining forty beds. There is also the Consumptive Sana- 

 torium, established twelve years, a charity supported by 

 public benevolence. This has two branches, one at Echuca, 

 for forty patients, which establishment is not self-contained, 

 being more of a convalescent home, the patients going out 

 into the town and parks in the day-time. Patients go to 

 Echuca in the winter, and to the sanatorium at Macedon, 

 which is self-contained, for the summer. 



West Australia and Tasmania have no sanatoria for con 

 sumptives. 



From the facts mentioned in the above paper it will be 

 readily seen that we have little or nothing to learn from our 

 Australian cousins in the way of grappling with the tuber- 

 culosis curse, and we have ample powers in our Public Health 

 Act for guarding the public health. 



I think all will agree that this subject of tuberculosis is 

 one deserving great attention, as the consumptive is often the 

 family bread-winner. If he can be cured by any means let 

 us cure him ; the less the State does for him the more burden 

 he becomes. His case is not like that of many deadly 

 diseases of short duration, his illness often being protracted 

 for years, during which time he becomes of less and less use 

 to the State and a source of danger to others. So from 

 purely economic if from no other motives let us do all in our 

 power for him, while at the same time we wage a deadly 

 war against the enemy which has crippled him and so many 

 millions of the human race. 



Art. XVIII. — Malaria and Mosquitos. 

 By Ernest Roberton, M.D. 



[President's Inaugural Address to the Auckland Institute, 9th June, 1902.] 



It has been the custom of our Institute since its foundation 

 that the President should, at the inauguration of each series 

 of winter lectures, deliver an address. In choosing my subject 

 for to-night I have followed the precedent set by most of those 

 who have previously occupied this chair in selecting a subject 

 not directly connected with our Institute itself, but one which 

 has general interest for all those who are concerned in watch- 

 ing the progress of science. 



The latter end of the nineteenth century has been very 

 fruitful of discovery in the realm of preventive medicine, and 

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