On the Endemic Prevalence of Infective Diseases in the Tropics. Inaugural Address of Session 1896-97
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Gentlemen,?Permit me to thank you most sincerely for allowingmethe privilege of presiding over your deliberations. It is indeed a high honour to be elected President of the Epidemiological Society, on whose roll are the names of able and distinguished men whose labours have indeed added much to our knowledge of disease. I cannot hope that it was any personal claim that induced the members of this Society to select me for the position I occupy this evening, but rather from a desire to recognise that branch of the profession to which I have the honour to belong?whose service under varied conditions of climate and races brings them ever in contact with diseases which afford opportunities for epidemiological study. It is with some diffidence that I have accepted the position, as I am fully aware of the responsibilities attached to the presidential chair ; and not the least has been my difficulty in selecting
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