Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Health in Africa: A Medical Handbook for European Travellers and Residents, Embracing a Study of Malarial Fever as It Is Found in British Central Africa
Central Africa under present conditions is not healthy. The Highlands are better than the Lowlands, but the land has to be very lofty in altitude to be above the fever zone. Yet the vast countries which lie between the Tropics in Africa are - most of them - richly endowed with sources of wealth. As a rule, the land is fertile and well watered - markedly so compared with Central Australia and many parts of South America. The rocks contain precious metals and precious stones. The forests furnish timbers, gums, drugs, and dyes of value. 'the animal world provides us with beautiful furs, with hides, ivory, and wax. The human population, living mostly in a state of savagery, attracts the atten tion of missionaries of many forms of Christian doctrine who desire to raise the negro to an appreciation of civilised life and to a definite religion. How are these sources of wealth to be tapped, how are these works to be carried on, if the European pioneer cannot retain his health?
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