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small tuberculous ulcers throughout. This cleared up the 

 mystery of these " wasters." Young stock feeding on infected 

 grass developed intestinal tuberculosis, nutrition was in- 

 terfered with ; the disease once established was practically 

 incurable, and the unfortunate animals, after living long 

 enough to spread the infection widely, gradually sank and 

 died. Upon the suggestion of Mr. York I delivered a lecture 

 at Hawera upon the nature and preventive treatment of 

 tuberculosis, and was told subsequently that within a fort- 

 night fifty head of suspected stock were killed by the owners 

 themselves. 



From a return''' very kindly prepared for me by Mr. Von 

 Dadelszeu, showing the relative mortality from tuberculous 

 diseases in New Zealand for the years 1882 and 1892, I find 

 that while, on the whole, the amount of disease has decreased, 

 the deaths from tuberculosis in Taranaki and Haw^ke's Bay have 

 increased. In Wellington, Nelson, Westland, and Otago the 

 mortality has remained about the same ; while in Auckland, 

 Marlborough, and Canterbury it has considerably abated. 



* Mortality in New Zealand from Tubeecular Diseases. 



a Includes tabes mesenterica, tubercular peritonitis, tubercular meningitis, 

 acute hydrocephalus, phthisis, scrofula, and other forms of tuberculosis. 



England and Wales. 

 Rate per 10,000 from tubercular diseases 

 Phthisis only 

 Other forms 



28-9 



21-2 



7-7 



