TINEA IMBRICATA {TOKELAU) 



parts of China, as far as Foochow and Formosa, and westwards to 

 Burma and Ceylon. The Gilbert group of islands seems to have 

 become heavily in- 

 fected since the begin- 

 ning of last century. 

 In 1859 it is said that 

 a native of Tamana, 

 an island of the Gilbert 

 group, affected with the 

 malady, landed at 

 Bowditch, an island 

 called also Tokelau, in 

 1859. From that year 

 onwards the disease 

 spread rapidly all over 

 the Bowditch or Toke- 

 lau Island. TheTamana 

 man who brought the 

 disease was called 

 Peter, hence the disease 

 became known in Bow 

 ditch or Tokelau as ' Le Pita' — viz., ' The Peter.' From Tokelau 

 the disease spread to Samoa, according to Turner and Koniger, in 



Fig. 813. — Tinea Imbricata. 



1869, and to many other islands, where it became known as 

 Tokelau. At the present time the disease is extremely common 

 in the Malay Peninsula, some parts of Indo-China and Southern 



F1G.S12.— Fungus in the Scales 

 (From a stained preparation ) 



