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that is, having an uninterrupted current of air passing betwixt the ground and their floors, have invariably enjoyed immunity from the disease.

These facts demonstrate an incompatibility with the laws which guide contagion. We ought not, therefore, I presume, to regard the fever as an exotic, first introduced in 1847; and the less so, as there is probable reason to believe that light cases were of every winter's occurrence, as now, for years previously; and Mr. St. George, the medical gentleman already mentioned, has notes, and a very distinct recollection of three simultaneous attacks in one family, so far back as in 1843, all of which were of grave character, but recovered. He has not the slightest doubt of their identity to those of later years, and he candidly admits that there was no precursory, or attendant, or consequent circumstance to direct him to impute these incidents to other than occult local causes and certainly not to extraneous introduction.

With these facts, then, before us, it becomes a very certain prediction that, if that injurious plan of erecting tenements be not abrogated, sporadic cases of the fever in question must continue to be of annual occurrence; and if the same, now only partial, system were general, and our population were dense, a wide-spreading epidemic, with its mischievous attendant, panic, would be the inevitable occasional consequence.

During this year, excepting catarrh, which has been already noticed as severe among the aborigines, we have had no epidemic or prominent disease in the district. A few cases of measles occurred among the white population in September and October, which was supposed, and with much probability, to have been introduced by a vessel from London, called the Cornwall. It did not, however, progress beyond a very few families, was of mild character, and of that kind technically termed "Rubola sine Catarrho," and which is not supposed to give immunity from the other sort of the disease.

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

Your very obedient servant,

P. WILSON,
Colonial Surgeon.

The Honorable
The Colonial Secretary,
&c., &c., &c.,
Auckland.

COLONIAL HOSPITAL, NEW PLYMOUTH.

Return of Out-Patient Diseases treated between 1st January and 31st December, 1849.

Abscessus ...... 10
Ambustio ...... 5
Amenorrhœa .... 1
Aphthæ ........ 1
Asthma ......... 1
Bronchitis ..... 10
Bronchocele .... 3
Bubo ........... 1
Catarrhus ...... 89
Carditis ....... 1
Cephalalgia .... 2
Colica ......... 2
Contusio ....... 4
Convulsio ...... 1
Cynanche ....... 3
Debilitas ...... 3
Dentitio ....... 1
Diarrhœa ...... 9
Dysenteria .... 1
Dyspepsia ...... 18
Enteritis chron. 2
Erysipelas ..... 2
Febris ......... 32
" Infantilis ... 37
Fistula ........ 1
Fractura ....... 1
Furunculus ..... 8

Gastritis chron. 3
Hydrocele ...... 1
Luxatio Humeri 1
Morbi Cutis .... 60
" Oculorum ... 10
Obstipatio ..... 32
Odontalgia .... 7
Otitis ......... 4
Paralysis ...... 1
Paronychia .... 1
Parturitio Difficilis 2
Phlegmon ...... 8
Phthisis ....... 19
Pneumonia .... 12
Ranula ......... 1
Rheumatismus . 48
Schirus ........ 2
Scrophula ..... 16
Sorditis ....... 1
Subluxatio ..... 8
Sycosis ........ 2
Tumor .......... 2
Ulcus .......... 29
" Scrophul. ... 34
Vermes ......... 6
Vulnus ......... 10

Total .... 570

Vaccinated ......... 320

P. WILSON,
Colonial Surgeon.

Commissioner of Crown Lands' Office,
Auckland, 25th April, 1850.

THE following person having applied for a Depasturing License for a defined Run, the description of the Run claimed now lies at this office for the inspection of any person concerned.

Name of Applicant. Description of Run.
Isaac Wade. Munga-munga-roa Creek.

W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.