SANITARY SCIENCE AT COLCHESTER.

Practical Sanitary Science

An Indian Degree in Sanitary Science

The Colchester Medical Society, 1774

THE COLCHESTR MEDIcAL SocIrY was founded in 1774 by Robert Richardson Newell (1750-1814), a surgeon and apothecary practising in the town. It is the oldest provincial medical society in Great Britain.' The earliest minute books have been lost, but the date is confirmed in Dr. Newell's obituary notice in the local press," and by the Medical Register for 1779, which lists all the members at that ...

The plague in Colchester-1579-1666.

Sanitary Notes in Poona

j I AM anxious to bring to professional notice a remarkable ^ instance of the seemingly mysterious generation of fever and cholera in certain localities, the present case being one in which these two scourges have chosen, what I maintain to be, one of their most favorite breeding dens. Ir. is not the ruined, weed-covered, and slimy tank, nor the foul looking pond put to foul uses and surrounded...