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South Wales being above 310,000, conditions attaching to density 
would seem to be in favour of spread in Victoria; there is a 
difference of 5 degrees in the mean annual temperature ; and 
lastly, there are no other differences (political or social) between 
the two. 
I point out that the remarkable features of the case thus briefly 
described exist only inasfar as the evidence from which they 
have been drawn is adequate to establish them as facts ; and that 
for that evidence, which is necessarily lengthy, reference must be 
made to the writing which was mentioned at first, and which 
concludes with the two following statements of opinion :— 
*‘T. Although lepers were imported to Victoria steadily during 
a long term of years, and in considerable number, and although 
they always remained entirely unrestricted in their movements 
among the whites, no Victorian native white who had never left 
the Colony has ever been attacked. Moreover the disease died 
away in Victoria quite dependently of restrictive measures 
against the liberty of lepers, which in fact were first taken only 
in March, 1893. 
“TT. Although coloured alicns of many different races, all of 
which have furnished cases of leprosy in Australia, have been 
imported during many years, and in large numbers, to all the 
better populated parts of the country, which extend along the 
coast-line from about the 146th degree of east longitude, easterly 
and then northerly towards Cape York (V ictoria, Now South 
Wales, Queensland) ; and although native whites who have never 
left their colony have been attacked at various places in New 
South Wales and Queensland ; there is no evidence, and no good 
reason for surmising, that any such native white has been 
attacked who lived south of the 35th parallel of south latitude 
(part of New South Wales and Victoria).” 
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