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Typhus fever. 



Charbon. 



Cholera. 



Beriberi. 



Pellagra. 



Remittent or intermittent or starvation or 

 relapsing fever. 



Malaria. 



Smallpox. 



Ague, unless actually imported by the in- 

 dividual. 



Dysentery, unless brought in the person of 

 a sufferer. 



Dengue. 



Plague. 



Aleppo or Delhi boils. 



Guinea worms. 



List II. 

 Diseases not known in New Zealand. 

 Yams or yaws. 



Leucoma. 



Yellow fever. 



Trichinosis. 



Madura foot. 



Favus. 



Malignant pustule. 



Hepatic abscess. 



Acute yellow atrophy of liver. 



Elephantiasis arabum. 



Trismus neonatorum. 



Plica polonica. 



Cretinism. 



Zanthelasma vitiligoidea. 



Hydrophobia. 



Hydatid. 



Equinia mitis or grease. 



Diseases from manufactures, as Sheffielders' asthma, phosphorus necrosis, arsenical copper 

 poisoning, &c. 



Bite of katipo. 



Disease 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. 



List 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 (?) 



Kemaeks on the Lists. 



It has been stated that smallpox and typhus have both existed in New 

 Zealand, and there are in the Kegistrar-Greneral'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 thiuk 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. (3.) 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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