Impure Aerated Waters in Calcutta and Bombay

Polio

The word 1 polio' has been striking the headlines during the recent weeks in Indian newspapers. A certain amount of scare has therefore been produced in the mind of the public. It is no doubt true that a fairly large number of cases of polio have been reported in Bombay city. A few isolated cases have also been reported from other parts of India like Delhi and Calcutta. It has not yet been deci...

The Health of India *The Health of India. By J. B. Grant. Published by the Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford. Available from the Oxford University Press, Bombay and Calcutta. Price, As. 4.

Seasonal Variations of Typhoid Bacteriophage in Natural Waters and in Man, in Calcutta during the Year 1930

BACTERIOPHAGE IN NATURAL WATERS AND IN MAN, IN CALCUTTA DURING THE YEAR 1930. By C. L. PASRICHA, m.a., m.b., B.chir., m.r.c.s., l.r.c.p., CAPTAIN, I.M.S., Military Assistant Surgeon A. J. de MONTE, i.mj)., and S. K. GUPTA, M.B., D.T.M. (From the Bowel Diseases Research Department, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.) Samples of waters from the river Hooghly and from certain tanks ...

An Account of Plague in Bengal *Being an abstract of a report to Government, September 1905. Not for Prize Competition.—Ed., I. M. G.

Plague came into Calcutta by sea and not by railway communication. It appeared first in 1898 in and about the British India Steam Navigation Company's wharf. Great care being exercised in Bombay in inspecting the crews of these coasting steamers, there is now very little doubt that the disease was introduced by the coming ashore of infected ships' rats. There appeared to be no imported cases of...

A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence for India

Within the past 18 months no less than three valuable treatises on Medical Jurisprudence have appeared from the pens of officers of the Indian Medical Service. We refer to the Legal Medicine by Collis Barry of Bombay, the new edition of L}7on's, edited by Lt.-Col. Waddell C.I.E., and the present volume, which embodies the vast, we might almost say, unique, experience of Lt.-Col. Gibbons as Poli...