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ZANZIBAR.

(empire.)

Area, 625 square miles. Population, 2 to 300,000.
Capital, Zanzibar; population, 100,000.
United States Consul C. W. Dow has kindly forwarded the

following, in a letter, dated Zanzibar, June 7, 1893:
"There is no law regarding the practice of dentistry in Zan-
zibar. There is one dentist here, a Parsee, from Bombay, and he
claims to have a license from the " College of Surgeons and Dent-
ists" at Bombay. (See India.) He is, however, a poor workman,
and as an extractor of teeth, is far inferior to the English physi-
cian, who is located here.
"The natives have no regular dentists, but there is a black-
smith here who occasionally extracts teeth with an instrument
very much resembling a pair of pinchers, and I assure you that it
is tooth-pulling in its most primitive state.
"A regular dentist would find a poor field here, as the
European population is light.
"There exists, of course, no dental school or society."