"North of Singapore is written by travel writer Carveth Wells about the Asian continent north of Singapore. It was written during 1939, just before the Second World War. Wells had previously worked as an engineer on the Federated Malay States Railway, and the Causeway. It includes black and white photographs and a map of the region. Writing about Singapore, he notes the vast improvements in health standards, saying: ‘twenty years ago, it wasn’t safe to drink the water or eat a salad. Practically everyone took quinine dail […] Nowadays, with first class drinking water brought from a mountain in the Johore jungle forty miles away, and every kind of modern sanitation, Singapore is so healthy that even the rats average only three fleas apiece…’ "
