Newmay.—Is New Zealand a Healthy Country ? 
T II. 
DISEASES NOT KNOWN IN NEW ZEALAND. 
Typhus fever. Yams or yaws. 
Charbon. Leucoma 
Cholera Yellow fever. 
Beriberi Trichinosis. 
Pellagra. Madura foot. 
Remittent or intermittent or starvation or 
relapsing fever. 
ari 
Smallpox. 
Ague, unless actually imported by the in- 
ividual 
dividual. 
Dysentery, unless brought in the person of 
avus. 
Malignant pustule. 
Hepatic abscess. 
Acute yellow atrophy of liver. 
Elephantiasis arabum. 
Trismus neonatorum. 
Plica polonica. 
a erer Crétinism. 
Dengue Zanthelasma vitiligoidea. 
Plague. Hydrophobia. 
Aleppo or Delhi boils. Hydatid. 
Guinea worms. Equinia mitis or grease. 
Diseases from manufactures, as Sheffielders’ asthma, phospl i 
poisoning, &c. 
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' Last III. 
DISEASES PECULIAR TO NEW ZEALAND. 
Poison of tutu plant. 
Gastric disturbances arising from the eat- 
ing of half-dried semi-putrid eels and 
half-rotten maize, disease peculiar to 
Maoris. 
Stroke of Gymnotus electricus (?) 
Bite of katipo. 
i among Maoris from eating excess 
of lampreys at wrong season. 
Poisoning from karaka berries. 
Cutaneous eruption due to rancid fat of 
pigeons, peculiar to Maoris. 
Poisonous mushrooms. 
Remarks on THE Lists, 
It has been stated that smallpox and typhus have both existed in New 
- Zealand, and there are in the Registrar-General's reports lists of deaths due 
to the latter disease. After careful enquiry, I think that typhus, true 
typhus as English physicians call it, has not yet appeared. I think the 
statement that deaths arise from typhus is due to three causes : (1.) Errors 
in diagnosis. (2.) Inability to distinguish between typhus and typhoid by 
certain men on the register of practitioners. (8.) The fact that foreign 
doctors use the terms typhus and typhus abdominalis for the two diseases, 
and hence a not infrequent source of error. 
About rotheln there seems some doubt. 
Ague never springs up de novo in any one in New Zealand, it is always 
imported by the sufferer in his own person. 
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