642 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION I. 



3.— HOSPITALS AS A MEANS OF SPREADING A 

 KNOWLEDGE OF SANITARY LAWS AND 

 HYGIENE. 



Btj Miss NOBLE. 



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4.— ARTISAN DWELLINGS, WITH SPECIAL REFE- 

 RENCE TO THE CLIMATE AND CONDITIONS OF 

 SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 



By A. H. GAULT, M.B., M.R.G.S., Z.R.O.P. 



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-REASONS FOR CONNECTING THE HIGH DEATH 

 RATE OF ADELAIDE AND THE INCREASING 

 UNHEALTHINESS OF SOME OF THE SUBURBS 

 WITH SEWERS AND SEWER GASES. 



By Miss martin: 



6._N0TES ON SPIROPTERA ASSOCIATED WITH 

 TUBERCULOSIS IN CATTLE. 



By C. E. BARNARD, M.D., and ARCHIBALD PARE, M.R.C.V.S. 



During the winter of this year Mr. Park was requested to 

 examine a herd of cattle in the Burnett district of Queensland, as 

 many of them were found to be suffering from swellings and 

 tumors, thought to be due to tuberculosis, and called locally 

 " lumpies." Seventy head were slaughtered for the purpose of 

 examination, all in a more or less diseased state. Tumors and 

 abscesses, varying in size from a walnut to a cocoanut, were 

 found in all parts of the body, throat and neck, brisket, intestines, 

 &c. ; and while some were hard, others were softened down into 

 purulent matter, but in each case the contents were encysted in a 

 firm fibrous cyst wall. 



Without the use of the microscope in these cases it would be 

 difficult to diagnose the true nature of the cause of these singular 

 growths and abscesses, as in many features they resembled tuber- 



