The Medical Board and Plague in Calcutta
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young man who was apparently in the best oi health was suddenly seized on the 1st November with an attack of fever and headache accompanied with excruciating pain and enlargement of the glands in the right groin. The pain in the groin was so severe that he could not straighten his leg. The symptoms increased in severity, and 011 the afternoon of November 2nd he became insensible, when his temperature was found to
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Dr. H. M. Crake
IT is with the deepest regret that we have learnt of the recent death at Home of Dr. H. M. Crake, Health Officer to the Calcutta Corporation. " Like many other medical men, Dr. Crake knew that he was engaged in a war with conditions that he could not hope to see swept away in his lifetime" remarks the Statesman. " Religious and social forms were all the time fighting against his desire to bring...
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