Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, September 1899 Vol. LV, May to October, 1899

"Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, September 1899" by Various is a collection of scientific writings from the late 1800s that highlights health issues. This particular edition opens with a discussion of the bubonic plague in Bombay, and how it threatens the world. The author, Victor C. Vaughan, shows the disease's alarming spread, brought on by unclean conditions and weak government actions to stop it. The author also takes a look into the British Empire and its interconnected cities and the discussion raises fears about how this dangerous disease could spread to other continents and even Europe and America.