Excerpt from Drainage for Health, or Easy Lessons in Sanitary Science Introductory - The Roman Campagna - Malaria in War - Natural Subsoil Drainage - The Healthy Country and the Malarious contrasted - Meadows and Valleys - The Drainage of Marshes - Small Marshes Mill Ponds - Heavy Land - Tenants and Heavy Land - Drainage Tools - Sandy Loam - Pine Forests - Immigrants to the Malarious Region. 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.