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practically, and in the main successfully, with the disease. But 

 in order to do so, suitable provision should be made in those 

 districts for the care of consumptives, who should be properly 

 housed and attended to. The longer I live here the more 

 convinced am I, that this disease cannot be as successfully 

 combated in the coast districts as in the interior. Both at Peak 

 Downs and Darling Downs I have seen recoveries bordering on 

 the marvellous. But sending young people up to Eoma or any 

 other town to live at an hotel or boarding-house, cannot possibly 

 do them any good. They require suitable food and home 

 comforts as well as air, and they require the latter in large 

 quantities, if it is to do them any good. They should, in fact, 

 live almost constantly in the open air, riding about as much as 

 possible, and sleeping out when convenient. The crowding 

 consumptives together in our hospitals is a mistake, both to 

 themselves and to the other patients living in the same ward. 

 The disease is a contagious one, and should be treated as such. 

 Consumptives should be segregated as much as possible, but not 

 in our coast towns. We have, as I have pointed oat, a climate 

 at least equal, if not superior, to any in the world, and it is our 

 plain duty to avail ourselves of it, and make suitable provision 

 for the care and treatment of our unfortunate consumptives. 

 The subject has been urged upon the Government repeatedly 

 by Dr. Jackson, the Medical Superintendent of the Brisbane 

 Hospital, but no Government has deemed it of sufficient 

 importance to take any action in the matter. 



DYSENTERY. 



Dysentery is a disease which was formerly much more 

 prevalent here than it is now. It is common to hot countries, 

 and used to prevail to an alarming extent on our goldfields. 

 The conditions of life on these were well calculated to engender 

 this and other diseases promoted by insanitary surroundings 

 and a contaminated water supply. However, the disease was 

 never so intractable in its nature, nor so lasting in its effects 

 here, as it is said to be in other parts of the world. 



LEPROSY. 



Leprosy is a disease which prevails in ti'opical and 

 temperate climates. It is an exotic so far as Queensland is 



