Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) EPIDEMICS RESULTING FROM WARS PRINTED IN ENGLAND AT THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Carnegie Endowment for International Peace DIVISION OF ECONOMICS AND HISTORY John Bates Clark, Director EPIDEMICS RESULTING FROM WARS BY DR. FRIEDRICH PRINZING EDITED BY HARALD WESTERGAARD PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN OXFORD: AT THE CLARENDON PRESS London, Edinburgh, New York, Toronto, Melbourne and Bombay HUMPHREY MILFORD 1916 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY THE DIRECTOR The Division of Economics and History of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is organized to ‘promote a thorough and scientific investigation of the causes and results of war.’ In accordance with this purpose a conference of eminent statesmen, publicists, and economists was held in Berne, Switzerland, in August 1911, at which a plan of investigation was formed and an extensive list of topics was prepared. The programme of that Conference is presented in detail in an Appendix. It will be seen that an elaborate series of investigations has been undertaken, and the resulting reports may in due time be expected in printed form. Of works so prepared some will aim to reveal direct and indirect consequences of warfare, and thus to furnish a basis for a judgement as to the reasonableness of the resort to it. If the evils are in reality larger and the benefits smaller than in the common view they appear to be, such studies should furnish convincing evidence of this fact and afford a basis for an enlightened policy whenever there is danger of international conflicts.