Tongataboo
Anon
Genre: | Extract, Letter |
Publications extracted: | Walter Lawry |
Subjects: | Imperialism, Medical Practitioners, Epidemiology, Climatology |
Observes that 'more labourers' are needed at the mission, preferably including 'a Surgeon and a Printer', and continues: 'Epidemic diseases occasionally occur here, which have been know to carry off many hundreds in a few months; but I do not apprehend that the climate upon the whole can be called unhealthy' (836). |
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