Show LOCAL DISEASES They are Confined to Certain Localities Locali-ties in Africa and Asia The unhappy Londoner plagued at this variable season pf the year by Influenza In-fluenza toothache rheumatism and 0 general malise has OUR poor consolation consola-tion Ho cannot possibly contract Aleppo evil unless indeed he Is un wlsii enough lo go to Aleppo For this loathsome and extraordinary disease Is i found nowhere in the wide world save and except within ihe confines of the city whence It derives Us name In ihe same way the better known Delhi sore Is conlnerl to Delhi alone among all the overcrowded and Insanitary cities of the East 0 Manclalay ringworm again can only be contracted In Mandalay although a modified variety is found occasionally jn Hongkong Canton and one or two other Chinese cities 0 r 0 Bock fever and oMaJtese fftver are practically identical ailments and are confined to Gibraltar and Malta re specllvelyk 00 The Biskra boulon is delightful lit tie gangrene very malignant and difficult diffi-cult to heal which attacks nearly everyone every-one who Is Injudicious enough to slay > for any length of lime In that filthy Algerian city its beginning Is a tiny wart or button which rlse suddenly In the center of the affected area Hence the name A similar ailment fp endemic In Crete as our soldiers garrisoned garri-soned there have discovered to their coal It is there known as the Candia button AInhum a negro word 0 signifying to saw may attack you if you happen lo reside within the Kongpbasln hub not elsewhere The essential feature of this truly remarkable ailment is Lime slow amputation of one or more toes usually usu-ally the little iocs by a gradually lightening bony ligature which forms around the busa of the affected morn ber or mombcrS 0 0 AInhum Is a painful disease but It is rarely fatal The same however cannot can-not bo said of the terrible sleeping sickness of the Kongo or negro lethargy leth-argy as some speciallats prefer lo call It This invariably kills The patient at first only drowsy ends by Bleeping alpiost continually waking only Xor meals or when forcibly roused Even tuallyhe cannot be awakened at all and dies of Inanition 0 Ponjdch familiar principally to En glishmen as having boon the scene of an unprovoked alluck by Russians on Homo Afghan soldiers posBeasea its own special ailment In the shape of a peculiar elongtiletl facial ulcer it at tacks visitors and natives alike and on healing leaves behind a disfiguring legacy In Ihc shape of a violetcolored scar London Express |