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A summary of the findings in these cases brings out certain points, 

 some of which at least are of particular interest. Some idea of the 

 importance of tuberculosis as a cause of death in these Islands is shown 

 by the number of cases in this series, 35 per cent, and an idea of the 

 virulence of the disease when once established may be drawn by com- 

 paring these figures with the number of cases showing healed tuberculous 

 foci, 6 per cent, and latent foci, 2 per cent. The disease as encountered 

 here is a rapidly progressing one, and the amount of tissue destroyed 

 and thrown out of function is marked. 



The frequency of chronic degenerative change of the myocardium 

 and of nephritis is more noticeable when compared with the relatively 

 small number of cases of arterial degeneration. The number of ulcera- 

 tions of the large bowel, 32 per cent, and scarring, 22 per cent, while 

 large, is smaller than the percentage of cases found b) r Musgrave in 

 his series of examinations. 



A feature by no means the least interesting is the absence of syphilitic 

 lesion in all but one case. 



