Cholera Amongst Emigrants to the Tea Districts
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By Vincent Richards, Superintendent of Emigration and Medical Inspector of Emigrants. A thorough and trustworthy history of cholera amongst emigrants would be of very considerable value, but, unfortunately, for reasons which I have enumerated in my paper on " Inland Emigration," it is impossible, at any rate with reference to the operations of the earlier years, to furnish anything more than the
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دوره 16 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016