the next day. The towns which are oenters of fish oonsianption are every- 

 where near the ooast, and even when the fish are sent to another plaoe, 

 little time is required for transportation beoause the islands are small. 

 Even in islands where refrigeration facilities are limited or entirely 

 lacking, it is difficult to see how many oases of poisoning could result 

 from putrefaction beoause the fish are used in a fresh condition. •These 

 facts baok up the results of the experiments recorded above^ and cases of 

 poisoning resulting from putrefaction in the high temperatures of the 

 South Seas must be considered as a separate phenooaenon* 



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