Calcutta, Cumbria, Convict: A Eurasian progress through Empire

Regeneration through Empire

Cinchona in the Empire, Progress and Prospects of Its Cultivation

, At present at least, quinine cannot be produced synthetically. Yet it is estimated that some 800 million persons are attacked every year in the tropics by malaria, and according to Sir Ronald Ross more than two million deaths occur annually from the disease. The economic Joss due to the disease is put down by Dr. Andrew Balfour at between ?52 and ?62 millions a year. Prior to 1880 the world's...

The Progress and Distribution of Cholera Mortality in Calcutta

Convict Marriages

Sir,?Major YVoolley's excellent article on Convict marriages in the Andamans in your March number does not appear to have aroused the comment?favourable or the reverse?which I anticipated and which it deserved. It is, however, of great interest to all those who have at heart the improvement of the criminal in the present and his disappearance in the future. As lie says, it is rather a shock to ...

The English Convict: A Statistical Study

science. ice The thesis maintained in this volume is that there is no physical or mental "criminal type." The word "criminal" throughout the book is used in the sense of the legal interpretation of that word The criminal is not abnormal, ("qualitatively different") as has been formerly held, but rather is unusual ("a deviation from the normal"). Taking up the larger subdivisions to which the bo...