Excerpt from In the Wonderland of Peru: The Work Accomplished by the Peruvian Expedition of 1912, Under the Auspices of Yale University and the National Geographic SocietyWe found an epidemic of smallpox and typhoid fever raging in the towns of Arma, Puquiura, and Lucma. These towns of 150 to 200 inhabitants had had a death toll of 40 and 50 people each.There was very little opportunity for medical work among the native Indians, but the more educated Peruvians Were extremely glad to come to the free clinics.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.