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Preventive Medicine in its Relation to Aviation*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

E. Goodwin Rawlinson*
Affiliation:
Bacteriological Department, Royal Institute of Public Health

Extract

Air transport has now become so important a factor in the life of the community that preventive medicine must seriously take into account the new problems that inevitably have arisen. Increased speed of transport brings about more frequent contact with rapidly increasing numbers of those of other communities as well as of their own.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1932

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Footnotes

*

Reprinted from The Lancet with additions.

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