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Measles, influenza, and dengue are easily confused, but if the planter 

 will look about him he will frequently find assistance from the fact of 

 certain diseases existing in the vicinity. 



Consumption is an infectious disease. Consumption is terribly 

 common in this country. The disease is insidious, and occurs in many 

 forms, affections of the lungs being perhaps the most common, but 

 the disease when it attacks the intestines is very fatal. The internal 

 organs are susceptible, and I have ample post-mortem proofs of its 

 frequent occurrence here in this situation. Careful examination of 

 coolies suffering from chronic cough is most advisable, and the ex- 

 amination should be carried out microscopically in order that no 

 mistake can arise. In the future Government will, I have no doubt, 

 erect consumption sanitaria, but for the present I consider that when 

 a coolie is found to be suffering from this dread disease, that he should 

 be immediately repatriated, as the cheapest and best method of pre- 

 serving the health of those who must associate with him in his work 

 and on the lines while in this country. 



A word or two about this shocking disease mav not come amiss 

 here. The disease is caused by the contact of the saliva of a rabio 

 animal with a wound on another animal (man included). 



It usually occurs as the result of the bite of any animal suffering 

 from rabies. 



The first symptoms of the disease in the dog (which is the corn- 

 monest domestic animal affected) are: i. A change in temperament- 

 2. Restlessness. 



The stages of the disease have been divided as follows:— 



1. The premonitory or melancholic. 



2. The irritative or maniacal. 

 3- The paralytic. 



In the first, as I have stated, the dog's general behaviour alters, 1 J 

 lively individual usually, he becomes morose, inclined to snap, ana 

 hide himself, as this stage progresses he is often observed to cn 

 sticks, to eat pieces of stone, etc. 



Phthisis. 



Hydrophobia. 



