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Health : the voyage to South Africa, and sojourn there.
- Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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- 1891
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Publication/Creation
London, 1891.
Physical description
80 pages : illustrations, map (color) ; 21 cm
Notes
Pt. 3, extracts reprinted from the Official handbook of the Cape of Good Hope, 1886; pt. 4, reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, 1888-89
"Collected and republished ... on the occasion of the assembling in London of the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography of 1891."
Contents
I. Introduction -- II. Index -- III. The Cape as a health resort ; extracts from the Official handbook of the Cape of Good Hope, edited by John Noble, Esq. -- IV. South Africa as a health resort ; lecture by Dr. E. Symes Thompson, with table, showing elevations and rainfall -- V. The voyage -- VI. South African railways -- Appendix
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This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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