Download or read book West London Medical Journal, 1906, Vol. 11 (Classic Reprint) written by West London Medico -Chirurgical Society and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from West London Medical Journal, 1906, Vol. 11 One of the chief objections people have to visiting jamaica appears to be the dread of yellow fever, but this is a mistake, for yellow fever has practically been stamped out. Some malarial fevers there are, but these are not of a severe or persistent type, and on the best authority I may say there are no endemic diseases to which visitors are liable, if ordinary precautions are taken, and the total death-rate of the whole population of the Island averaged only per for the last ten years, one of the chief causes of death being pulmonary consumption, which is very prevalent among the black population on account of their insanitary dwellings. 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.