510 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 
torrid climates, and the cold of the south is not extreme. The constant 
winds blow away all accumulating odours, and keep the atmosphere ever 
pure. 
Phthisical invalids from Great Britain on arrival here always improve. 
They lose their coughs, grow stronger, and in very many cases recover. 
Immigrants acquire no new disease due to climate. Those coming from the 
tropics always gain new life and vigour. Our statistics prove, apart from 
disturbing causes, that the climate is excellent and conduces to a general 
lengthening of life. Whether it really conduces to very old age, and is 
really invigorating to those born in it, are still open questions. The im- 
portant question what diseases most prevail must be left to a future mono- 
graph. 
Summary. 
Mr. Frankland's statisties show that New Zealand possesses the lowest 
death-rate of any country in the world; and that the conditions favour- 
able to life are common to all ages. We have seen that New Zealand pos- 
sesses only a moderate number of the known diseases, that many of the 
most deadly are always absent, and that there are no new ones. To the 
enquiry, “ Is New Zealand a healthy country ?" we have brought ample 
proof to show that it is as yet the healthiest on the face of the globe. As 
the country becomes more populous, the death-rate will increase, unless the 
people make earnest and continuous efforts to lower it. Even the present 
death-rate might be greatly lessened, by a little care and a little cost, if we 
saved lives by preventing the spread of typhoid, measles, searlet fever, and 
phthisis. 
