The Improvement of Native Agriculture in relation to Population and Public Health

Abstract

IN this book, Sir Daniel Hall deals with some of the many problems which have arisen from the impact of modern civilization on the native tribes of Africa. The increase in the human population and in the number of cattle which followed the stoppage of war and the reduction in epidemic disease has led to a dangerous condition “The eminent consequences are disease due to inadequate diet, tribal unrest and the spread of the desert”. The Improvement of Native Agriculture in relation to Population and Public Health By Sir A. Daniel Hall. (University of London: Heath Clark Lectures, 1935, delivered at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.) Pp. vii + 104. (London: Oxford University Press, 1936.) 10s. 6d. net.