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found associated with both of these latter, and he became of opinion 

 that both the leprosy and the lilaria were associated diseases brought 

 here by the Chinese, and distributed by mosquitoes. Numerous 

 cases of filarial disease were found in the families of cottagers, who 

 had wells, open water butts, and tanks, and in one instance there 

 were four children suffering from filaria in one family. His re- 

 searches led him to the more careful exclusion of mosquitoes from 

 water tanks by gauze covers, and the disuse of wells, and he states 

 that happily since the large water-works pipes were distributed 

 so freely few young children were now found with manifestations 

 of filarial diseases. He referred to his original paper published in 

 the Pathological Society's Transac, 1878, vol. 29, p. 407, at which 

 meeting he crossed swords with the President, Sir Erasmus Wilson, 

 who called him to task for affirming that the term " Elephantiasis " 

 should be used for the big leg disease only, and that " Elephantiasis 

 grsecorum " as applied to leprosy should be abandoned. On 

 reading over the old case books of the Brisbane Hospital he became 

 convinced that amongst its records there were cases of leprosy and 

 possibly also of filarial diseases. 



In a paper written in 1893 (A.M.G., 1893, p. 260) Dr. E. 5- 

 Jackson, of the Brisbane Hospital, states that he had seen 40 cases 

 in two years, and had histories of recent experience of nearly 30 

 cases embracing most of the conditions which observers in other 

 countries had attributed to filaria. The majority of his cases had 

 enjoyed good health, even those who were subject to periodical 

 attacks of the pyrexia which Faro has termed " elephantoid fever." 

 Most of his cases were under 20 years of age, the oldest being 52 

 years. This latter case was the worst he had seen, for the patient 

 had marked elpehantiasis in his leg and foot, and was subject to 

 much erysipelas. The disease as he had seen it occurred only in the 

 native born population or in people who had come to Queensland at 

 an earlv age. He believed that the severer forms had not been 

 found amongst aborigines, and surmised from that, that the disease 

 had been introduced into this country from some other place. 

 Most of the cases had come from places within thirty miles of 

 Brisbane, one from New South Wales, and two from European 

 countries. In several instances two or three people in one family 

 were affected, which, he was led to believe, was a common ex- 

 perience. The duration of the disease was from one to twelve 

 years, and he was inclined to think that one of the effects of the 

 parasite was delayed menstruation in girls and the later arrival 

 of puberty in boys. 



In the discussion on this paper Dr. Marks referred to two 

 patients suffering from this disease who died very suddenly, in his 

 opinion, from cardiac embolism. Dr. Peter Bancroft was of opinion 

 that, judging from the number of young children he saw whose 

 blood contained filarial embryos, the disease was increasing in 

 Brisbane, and referred to two patients in the Children's Hospital, 

 Brisbane, suffering from popliteal abscesses, which were very 



