Book excerpt: Excerpt from Transactions of the Third International Sanitary Conference of the American Republics Sanitary Convention Of the American Republics will be held in San Jose, Costa Rica, December 25, 1909, to January 2, 1910. It is respectfully urged that every Republic Of the Western Hemisphere be represented at this convention, both those that have been heretofore represented and those which have not taken part in the previous conventions. 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.