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Excerpt from Remarks on a Review of the Report on the Cause and Extent of Typhoid Fever in Melbourne
These and other statistics that reach us from Australia from time to time, show that they are collected with great care, and, as we suppose, at some considerable cost. But they are, nevertheless, obviously and seriously incomplete, because no deductions are drawn from the elaborate and industriously compiled tables before us. Surely the figures, before being formally submitted to the Government, could be made to pass through the hands of a professional expert, who, possessing a thorough knowledge of the country, as well as of his profession (in this case medical), could present to us some useful lessons designed to aid our knowledge of the climate, and thus point the way to the prevention of the most common zymotic diseases of the Colony, and so to the average maintenance of health.
Throughout the Report it has been the author's aim to draw the required deductions; with what result it may, perhaps, come within the province of The Lancet to determine.
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