Public Health Practice in the Tropics

Dr. Balfour Kirk has himself travelled extensively and, as his book and references show, has cast far and wide for information and descriptions of public health practices in a large number of tropical countries. As he himself says, one cannot venture far into the tropics without encountering the native of India and while he is welcomed for his qualities, being frugal, law-abiding! and industrious, Dr. Kirk would seem to hold hinj responsible for much of the insanitation in tropica' countries and this he would ascribe largely to the peculiar tenets of the Hindu faith, which despises the body and exalts the mind. This maj' be to some extent true, but every earnest faith, including Christianity) has passed through this stage and it would hardly be