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REVIEW OF DENTISTRY. 365

FIJI ISLANDS.

(BRITISH COLONY.)
Area, 7,740 square miles. Population, 124,919.
Principal city, Suva; population, 600.
A consular authority writes us from Levuka, November 17,
1892:
"There are no dentists here, either European or native. The
colony is visited once or twice a year by dentists from other parts
of Australia, and when the visiting dentist is a competent one he
reaps a' good harvest, but we have no resident dentists here,
although one would make a very good living.
" The teeth of the Fijian native never seem to give him

any trouble. As a rule, he is blessed with excellent teeth to the
end."

HAWAII.

(republic.)

Area, 6,640 square miles. Population, 80,578.
Capital, Honolulu; population, 20,487.
Dr. M. Whitney writes from Honolulu, October 26, 1892:
J.
"There are now practicing in Honolulu five regularly edu-
cated dentists, besides Hawaiian quacks, Portuguese quacks,
Chinese quacks, Japanese quacks, and what other quacks I do
not know. We have a bill before the present Legislature, regu-
lating the practice of dentistry in the Hawaiian Islands.
" There is one traveling dentist who goes from island to
island.
"The Americans, British and Germans, and a few Hawaiians
and Chinese, are about the only ones who call upon the regular
dentists.
" By the last census there were in Honolulu, males and fe-
males: Americans, 1,198; British, 806; Germans, 306.