Inauguration of Bombay Branch

Sanitation of Bombay

Bombay Notes

In my last letter I referred to the extensive rebuilding scheme which had been laid down for the Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Hospital, and I will now describe its salient features. It is not to be all taken in hand at once, but the sections will be added one by one as they are most urgently needed. The hostel for nurses has already been built and was opened last year. In the completed plan it will sta...

Shapp Pledges Financial Reforms at Inauguration

A West Philadelphia community action group has requested that a site at 42nd and Market Streets "be purchased by the University and sold to the community at a minimum fee" for use as an "architectural workshop." John Petitj president of the West Powelton Concerned Community Council (WPdCC), last week wrote a letter to President Meyerson asking for the workshop, which would be used in training l...

Canine Leishmaniasis in Bombay

In an interesting communication 011 this subject by Khan Bahadur C. R. Avari and L,ieutenant-Colonel F. P. Mackie, i.m.s., published in the Indian Medical Gazette for December 1924, the authors do the writer of this memoir the honour of generously referring to his films which they had seen a short time previously from the lesions of a dog under his observation. Although it is rather late in rec...

Inauguration of the Cameroonian Society of Human Genetics

The conjunction of "hard genetics" research centers, with well established biomedical and bioethics research groups, and the exceptional possibility to hold the 6th annual meeting of the African Society of Human Genetics (AfSHG, 13th-15th March 2009) was an excellent opportunity to get together in synergy the entire Cameroonian "DNA/RNA scientists" . This laid to the foundation of the Camerooni...