REVIEW. 



Primer of Sanitation for the Tropics. By John Woodside Rithehie and Mar- 

 garet Anna Purcell. Cloth. Pp. x + 182. Illustrated by 94 figures. Price 

 $0.60. Yonkers-on-Hudson: World Book Co., 1910. 



This little book undoubtedly is one of the best of its kind that has come 

 to our notice, and could well be adopted by the public schools of the 

 United States with certain changes to suit the different conditions there. 

 By following its teachings children can soon learn the simple principles 

 of cleanliness and how to avoid disease. 



The book treats of the causes of infectious diseases, what germs are, 

 how they get into the body, how the body fights them, and how to avoid 

 them. The principal diseases of the Tropics, such as cholera, dysentery, 

 malaria, tetanus, tuberculosis, etc., are discussed in a language that any 

 child can understand, and there is a sufficient repetition of the axioms 

 governing a healthy life to impress the mind with their importance. 

 In fact we can recommend the pertisal of this valuable little work to adults 

 as well as to children. 



Caeeoll Fox. 



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