The Superintendence of Jails, Bengal

Appendices to the Report on the Medico-Legal Returns Received from the Civil Surgeons in the Bengal Presidency during the Years 1870, 1871, and 1872

PEPOPT ON MEDICO-LEGAL PETUPNS, &c. 225 ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. APPENDICES TO THE REPORT ON THE MEDICO-LEGAL RETURN'S RECEIVED FROM THE CIVIL SURGEONS IN THE BENGAL PRESIDENCY DURING THE YEARS 1870, 1871, AND 1872. By Eobert Harvey, M. B., &c., Surgeon, Bengal Army. (Continued from page '201.^ appendix a. Table shewing the distribution and relative proportion of cases in each Circle of Medical...

Mortality of Bengal Jails

Tubercle of Lungs in Bengal Jails

with difficulty. A cursory investigation soon reveals the numberless pitfalls which await the enquirer I have, therefore, considerable diffidence in submitting this short paper as an attempt to throw some light 011 a very important subject For the sake of convenience, I have con linn,] myself mostly to Bengal jails m general and the I residency jail in particular. Arguing d 'priori, the questio...

A Note on the Nutritive Values of the Dietaries of Bengal Jails

scales of diets in use in the jails of the Province of Bengal, with the optional or permissive alterations sanctioned by the Jail Code. These scales of diet have been in force since the year 1881, and are reproduced with slight variations in the revised Jail Code. In all thirty-two variations of diet are here given, and their respective chemical values calculated both in terms of nitrogen and c...

Epidemic Dropsy or Beri-Beri in Eastern Bengal *This hardly states the point of view of Lt.-Col. Giles quite fairly. Col. Giles found a vast confusion about diseases in Assam in which dropsy and anæmia were prominent symptoms. He showed clearly that these cases were not what is ordinarily known as beri-beri, and he emphasised the discovery of the share taken by the ankylostoma in producing anæmia. What was then thought to be malaria is now believed to be Leishmian-Donovah infection.—Ed., I. M. G.

of Civil Hospitals, Eastern Bengal and .Assam, were briefly to find out if there was any factor of causation common to the affected jails and not equally to the others, and I was to satisfy myself as to the diagnosis of the cases. My experience of beri-beri has been fairly extensive as I 6aw cases numbering, perhaps, five hundred, in the Tung Wah Hospital, Hong-Kong, in ioqo and 1901, through t...