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RETURN of Diseases treated in the Hospital at New Plymouth, from January to December, 1852, inclusively. P. Wilson, Colonial Surgeon. RETURN of Diseases of Out-Patients treated at the Colonial Hospital of New Plymouth, in 1852. Abscess us 22 Aphthae 1 Catarrhus 25 Contusio 14 Delirium Tremens.... 1 Diarrhoea 3 Ecthyma 32 Febris Ephemeris .... 6G “ Inlantilis .... 30 In'ennittens .. 1 Fracura Pollicis .... 1 Fur vnculvis ........ 10 Hydrops 1 Luxatio Polltcis .... 1 Oostipa’io 53 Odontalgia 15 Carried forward., 276 Brought forward..2/6 REMARKS. The European population of this Settlement, as regards its limited territory, has increased very considerably within the last year, so that, now, it verges on the number of two thousand. Yet, though with this increase, and visited certainly, as it has been, by a more humid and unsettled serial of seasons than is ordinarily experienced here, there is no record or remembrance of any previous annual period in which the per centage of disease was so inconsiderable to the amount of population. Nor has there been in any whit hj, though always remarkable, so overbalancing a proportion of births to deaths, as has occuned during these past twelve months. For, with the exception of a few cases of our indigenous winter typhus —these resulting from perverse or ignorant inobservance of prophylactic means, but of which, though all, more or less, of pro'racled character, none proved fatal—we have had no demonstration of serious, or of prominent morbid affection in our community ; while the births, as above alluded to, have borne to the deaths the extraordinary proportion of thirteen and a half to one —the amount of deaths in the whole white population being only seven, while the births have reached to the number of eighty-nine. Excepting the occasion of the catarrhal epidemic of 1849, there has been to be observed an annually progressive improvement of the health status, generally, among the iMaories of this neighbourhood ; aud it is particularly deserving of remark, that these people are becoming more robust, and that the scrofulous diathesis is considerably less prevalent, certainly less demonstrated ; and while fewer cases of open sores of this character present to observation, the indolent glandular tumours —no doubt also of strumous idiopathy, aud which used to be of verv common occurrence are now much less frequently to be met with. To account for these sanatory ameliorations, we may refer, first, to this people becoming more and more habituated to the changes which civilization has introduced among ihem, whether as regards food or clothing; but, secondly, mote still, I apprehend, to their getting rid, comparatively, of much of their loitering, lazy, and idle, together with somewhat of their personal dirty habits, and being, moreover, in all invigorating ways, more industrious, P. Wilson, Colonial Surgeon. Land Commissioner’s Office, Auckland, 241h Feb., 1853. I HENRY MATSON, a Commissioner ap- •, pointed for examining and reporting on all Claims to Compensation preferred according to the provisions of an Ordinance, Sess 7, No. 22, intituled, “ An Ordinance to authorize Compensation in Colonial Debentures to be made to certain Claimants to Land in the Colony of New Zealand.” do hereby notify that I will investigate the unJermentiuned Claims, at the Council Chamber, at eleven o’clock, a m., on Wednesday, the 23rd day of March, 1853. The cases will be heard in the order in which they stand in the following List, and all parties, interested are hereby summoned to be in attendance with their documents and witnesses. Henry Matson, Commissioner. Preemption Certificate, No. 183. James Blythe. 800 acres. Eight hundred acres of land, situated on the left bank of the creek Waitemala; bounded on one side by the abovenamed creek •, on another by the creek Kumeu; on another by a place named Te Tan Rangatira; and on the other by a line from the creek Kumeu to the creek Waitemata. Alleged to fiare been purchased from the