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supplied from Queensland are too scanty to permit any- 

 numerical estimate to be made, but tbej sHow conclusively that 

 tlie disease is comparatively rare in tbat colony, 



Tasmai^ia. — The population on December 31st, 1880, was 

 114,762. The mean death-rate for the decade 1869-79 was 

 15"59 per 1,000. First, as regards the deaths registered as 

 due to hydatid disease : — In March, 1878, the Colonial Secretary 

 wrote that during the ten years immediately antecedent to 1878 

 "no deaths from this disease were registered." However, in 

 1878 there were two deaths, in 1879 two deaths, in 1880 one 

 death, in 1881 one death ; total, six deaths. So that in the last 

 four years there have been six deaths from that cause. This 

 was at the rate of '871 per 1,000 deaths. 



Hospitals of Tasmania. — Returns were received from the 

 Hobart, Launceston, and Campbelltown Hospitals. There was 

 no record of any case of this disease in either the Launceston 

 or the Campbelltown Hospital. The returns of the Hobart 

 Hospital comprise the four years 1878 to 1881 inclusive. There 

 were thirteen cases treated suffering from hydatids. During 

 the same period there were 4,223 in-patients, so that in the 

 four years under our notice about one case out of 528 total in- 

 patients was hydatid. As by some misunderstanding I have 

 not been able to learn the total number of in-patients treated 

 at the Campbelltown Hospital, I am unable to give the general 

 hospital hydatid-rate for the colony, but I have reason to 

 believe that not more than one out of every thousand cases 

 treated is of this nature. 



New Zealand. — Population on December 31st, 1880, 484,864 

 souls. Mean death-rat€ from 1869 to 1879, 12*17 per 1,000. 

 The Acting Colonial Secretary, in a letter dated March 7th, 

 1878, states that the causes o£ death were not compiled by the 

 Registrar- General's department prior to the year 1873. A 

 statistical return that should have accompanied this letter has 

 not reached my hands, so that the only returns in my posses- 

 sion are those' for the four years 1878, 1879, 1880, and 1881, 

 and they show that in the year 1878 the deaths from hydatids 

 were six, equal to 1*29 per 1,000 ; in 1879, seven, equal to 1'25 

 per 1,000; in 1880, nine, equal to 1-65 per 1,000; in 1881, 

 three, equal to 055 per 1,000 ; total, 25. So that 1*185 per 

 1,000 of the deaths that took place in these four years resulted 

 from hydatid disease. In hospital returns for Xew Zealand 

 replies were received from Auckland, Charlestowu, Christchurch, 

 Dunedin, Grisborne, Hokitika, Lawrence, Napier, Naseby, 

 Nelson, New Plymouth, Gamaru, Picton, Eeefton, Southland, 

 Thames, Timaru, AYakatipa, AVellington, and A\^estport. In 

 eleven of these no hydatids had been treated, viz., Charlestown, 



