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there are not above twenty-five cases in all New Zealand. This disease 

 has not been communicated to Europeans. It is true leprosy occurs in 

 the colony, but it is the sporadic leprosy obtaining rarely in Great Britain. 



The Maoris, the original inhabitants of these islands, never at any time 

 formed a dense population, consequently the soil was never polluted with 

 excreta and the dead as in older countries. 



The European emigrants to these bountiful isles, come to lands free 

 from any new disease, unfortunately they have brought most of their own, 

 and in time will bring more ; but it is a remarkable fact that in the country 

 itself there is no new disease. Neither soil nor water, nor atmosphere, pro- 

 duce specific disease germs, or new diseases due to other conditions. 



Had it been possible to maintain a rigorous and perfect system of qua- 

 rantine, these isles might have been kept for ever free from typhoid, 

 measles, and other zymotic diseases. It should be one of the chief aims of 

 the Government and the people to prevent the introduction of those not yet 

 brought hither. 



LIST I. 



Diseases existing in New Zealand. 



Zymotic Diseases. 



Typhoid (under a variety of names, as swamp fever, colonial fever, bilious fever, gastric 



fever, low fever, diarrhoea, dysentery, and probably other aliases). 

 Measles. Hay asthma. 



Rotheln. Ague. 



Scarlet fever. Chickenpox. 



Diphtheria. Cowpox. 



Croup. Roseola. 



Erysipelas. Pertussis or whooping-cough. 



Hospital gangrene. Influenza. 



Puerperal fever. 



Chest Diseases. 

 Phthisis, tubercular, fibroid, probably every variety. 

 Pneumonia, every variety. Bronchitis, all forms. 



Pleurisy, hydrothorax, empyema. Asthma. 



Constitutional Diseases. 

 Tuberculo Chronic rheumatism. 



Struma. Rheumatic fever. 



Syphilis. ' Cancer. 



Rachitis. Gout. 



Heart Diseases. 

 All forms. Angina pectoris. 



Kidney Diseases. 

 All known forms except parasites. 



Suprarenal capstiles. 

 Addison's disease. 



