Excerpt from Yellow Fever Commission (West Africa), 1913: Fourth and Final Report The atmosphere which war creates renders research, unless in subjects directly connected therewith, almost impossible. This is in part due to the fact that nearly all who are qualified for research desire to undertake work of a more active kind on behalf of their country. In the West African Dependencies it became necessary to recall the members of the West African Medical Staff who were acting as appointed Investigators of the Commission to other duties, and it was not found possible to replace them. 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.