THE ARMY SANITARY COMMISSION.

The Army Sanitary Commission on Typhoid Fever in India

last. At the same time a report by Surgeon-General J. Kerr-Innes on the prevalence and causation of typhoid fever among European troops in the Bengal Command in 1876 was submitted for review, and the Commission deliberated on both documents simultaneously, and submitted to the Secretary of State for India a memorandum containing the result of their deliberations. The memorandum does not advance...

The Sanitary Commission of Bengal

"Indian Medical Gazette" may be written as legibly as possible, and only on oxb sidk of each sheet of paper. Technical expressions ought to be so distinct that no possible mistake can be made in printing them. Keglect of these simple rules causes much trouble. Communications should be forwarded as early in the month as possible, else delay must inevitably occur in their publication. Business le...

Arguing over adulteration: the success of the Analytical Sanitary Commission.

In the Lancet in the 1850s a series of reports described gruesome levels of adulteration in Londoners' food. Following a government inquiry, The Times lauded the supposed hero of the hour, Arthur Hill Hassall MD. In response a furious and acrimonious argument erupted in the letters-pages of The Times and two other medical journals. The details of this argument reveal that not everybody agreed t...

The Sanitary Primer

Army Medical Service and the Army Estimates