Available at University of Florida Digital Collections.
From the Introduction:
Dr. Eldon Burke, now Director of European Work for the Brethren Service Committee but who as Director of the Philadelphia Research Center of the Friends, Mennonites and Brethren, supervised the research undertaken in this study by specialists from the ranks of Civilian Public Service, wrote in the original introduction to this volume: "Critics on the literature of Puerto Rico have frequently alleged that such studies have been written either from the viewpoint of the hibiscus or that of the hookworm. It would seem that this work would consequently fall into the latter classification. To avoid such a ready characterization, the authors have attempted to go beyond a study which finds its unity in a nexus solely composed of problems, and have endeavored to present the difficulties of the Puerto Ricans and our administration of the island in the broader setting of environment and culture. ..."
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