Tropical and Geographical Medicine

Geographical information systems and tropical diseases.

The geographical information system (GIS) revolution started in the mid 1980s and has since snread to all countries of the world. A GIS is a comput&software package that is concerned with the capture, storage, manipulation, query, display and analysis of any and all types of geographical information, (BLJRROUGH, 1986; CHORLEY, 1987; LAURINI & THOMPSON, 1992; ESRI, 1993). There are now many diff...

Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Tropical Medicine

tion of water, for which he apparently considers heat the only entirely satisfactory medium. He thinks dhoby's itch is actually transmitted from the washerman by means of the clothes, in spite of the fact that many authorities make light of this danger ; and has seen the incidence of the disease reduced greatly by reforms in washing. Turning to the body of the work, we find sprue regarded as of...