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Title: McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.

Author: Various

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McCLURE'S MAGAZINE

VOL. XXXI JULY, 1908 No. 3

_Copyright, 1908, by The S. S. McClure Co. All rights reserved_

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS 241
GUARDIANS OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH. By Samuel Hopkins Adams. 241
Our Health Boards and Their Powers 242
Our Absurd Vital Statistics 244
The Criminal Negligence of Physicians 246
"Business Interests" and Yellow Fever 246
Newspapers, Politicians, and the Bubonic Plague 248
Fighting Prejudice and the Death Rate in Charleston 250
Killing Off the City Negro 251
Private Interests in Public Murder 251
A LITTLE VICTORY FOR THE GENERAL. By Josephine Daskam Bacon. 253
AMERICAN IMPRESSIONS. By Ellen Terry. 263
THE HERITAGE OF HAM. By Lieutenant Hugh M. Kelly, U. S. A. 277
THE SINGER'S HEART. By Harris Merton Lyon. 291
THE REPUDIATION OF JOHNSON'S POLICY. By Carl Schurz. 297
The Fourteenth Amendment