"THE INDIAN LEPER CENSUS."

Census of Indian Physicians and Surgeons

The Result of Trials of Sodium Hydnocarpate and Sodium Morrhuate in Thirteen Indian Leper Asylums

The experiment was carried out in a large number of the asylums and reports have been received from 13 of these. The reports received from two other asylums were so incomplete as to be of no use in determining the results. Sir Leonard Rogers asked me to classify and report on the results as shown in the various reports. The asylums where the experiment was carried out were the following (that i...

Age and empire in the Indian census, 1871-1931.

Age and Empire in the Indian Census, 1871–1931 Historians have long since learned to tread carefully when using certain categories of census data to arrive at conclusions about the past. To cite speciŽ c studies of nineteenth-century British census returns, the categories of “the household,” women’s work, farm labor, and the more general social classiŽ cation of occupations have recently been t...

The Melton Mowbray "leper head": an historical and medical investigation.

For the last forty years, the vestry of St Mary's Church, Melton Mowbray, has been home to a remarkable, yet little known, piece of medieval sculpture known locally as the "leper head" and linked by tradition to the nearby hospital foundation at Burton Lazars. Doubts have been cast on this over the years by both professional and amateur historians, who have alleged that the distinctive features...

Maternal education, female labour force participation and child mortality: evidence from the Indian census.

The objective of this paper is to examine how child mortality changes with different levels of maternal education and to quantify the impact of material education and female labour force participation. Child mortality gradients, according to years of education, are rather steep at the primary education level for both male and female children. In post-primary stages of education incremental ga...