IN TROPICAL AUSTRALIA.
' EARTH-EATING PREVALENT AT CAIRNS. By Telograph-Prcse Association—CoD.vrteht.' , (Rec. August 15, 10.25 p.m.) Brisbane, August 15. ' Dr. Brenel, Director of the Tropical Diseases Institute, reports that the earth--eating disease is prevalent in the Cairns district in Northern Queensland, and a number of children are treated in tho hospital every week. \ The disease, so far as children are concerned, is a permanent and blighting influence on their mental and moral development. -, - ' Touching the question of whether white men could stand the strain of cutting sugar-cane in the tropics, Dr. Brenel is of opinion that alcoholism and other debilitating habits djd much more to impair the health of tho white workers than the actual eano-cutting.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 896, 16 August 1910, Page 7
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115IN TROPICAL AUSTRALIA. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 896, 16 August 1910, Page 7
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