Excerpt from The Journal of Sociologic Medicine, Vol. 17: Continuing the Bulletin of the American Academy of Medicine; February, 1916 It may be proper to mention here the danger of the introduction of trachoma from the Orient. This is practically controlled, however, by the examination of arriving aliens at the immigra tion stations. In this connection it should be recalled that the disease is already quite prevalent in many parts of the United States and that it has been necessary for the Federal Government to erect special hospitals for the control of the disease in certain districts. 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.