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bad and unhappy enough to us, but let us compare it 

 with what has happened and is happening in other 

 countries. Previously to the advent of Europeans in 

 the islands of the Pacific Ocean tuberculosis was an 

 unknown quantit}^ and indeed it remained an un- 

 known quantil}' so long as the only visitors were the 

 lawless, though healthy and non-consumptive, 

 buccaneers and traders of the earlier days. But no 

 sooner did the more fragile, and occasionally con- 

 sumptive, missionary set his foot on the land than — 

 what happened then ? The student of Pacific historv, 

 more especiall}'- if he prosecutes his studies on the 

 spot, will soon learn that while the missionary often 

 got robust and well from the effects of his open-air 

 environment, his unfortunate flock, infected by the 

 comparatively small number of bacilli disseminated 

 from the single focus of infection afforded by their 

 pastor, died of phthisis wholesale, like a flock of 

 rotten sheep or a herd of rinderpest oxen. And not 

 onh^ did they die, but they were not long a])out it. 

 The same fate at the hands of tuberculosis awaits nearly 

 every negro — and indeed ever}' ape, if we can believe 

 our observers — that visits this country to reside in it, 

 and lam told in many quarters and on the very best 

 Canadian authority that the Indians of the far West 

 of America and those in Canada will at no very 

 distant date be completely removed from the face of 

 the earth by the same cause, "and this too in a 

 climate whither," according to Dr. H. M. King, of 

 New York University, "white persons rendered more 

 immune by heredity, are sent as a therapeutic measure 

 when themselves suffering from the same malady." 



Examples can be multiplied with ease : — Measles 

 has for ages been in itself regarded as of not much 

 account by the British matron : when first introduced 

 into the island of Fiji in January 1875, (by some 

 passengers arriving from Sydney in H.M.S. Dido), it 



