Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Medical News, Vol. 80: A Weekly Medical Journal; January-June, 1902
After the canal is built, infectious diseases will almost inevitably be brought to the people of the Isthmus by the large amount of traffic which will result. Vessels will come from the cholera centers of Hong Kong, Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, Singapore and the Straits settlements; from the plague foci of China India and Japan and from the yellow fever ports of Brazil, Mexico and those islands of the West Indies which lie between 61 and 85 west longitude. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
