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).