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Excerpt from Hygiene in Mexico: A Study of Sanitary and Educational Problems At present the great endeavors to adapt man to the environment imposed on him by the exigen cies of modern life, which he must bear as indi vidual or species, combined with efforts made to discover the chief elements of adaptation - efforts resulting on the one hand from the transformation effected in hygiene by the discoveries of Pasteur, which have directed it along a rational road, and on the other, from the abundant resources supplied by industry - ought to make of the public health one of the most sacred and imperious duties of the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.