The evacuation of Burma: fifty years ago.

The Burma Campaigns, 1942-1945; a history of casualty evacuation.

A statistical study of 1,000 cases of leprosy observed in Rangoon for approximately two years.

Leprosy is widely prevalent in Burma. According to a recent inquiry (2) there were 3,035 segregated cases, 21,379 unsegregated cases and an estimate of 75,000 unknown cases, or a total of approximately 100,000 in a population of 17.5 million. Two further estimates, one by Tha Saing and Lampe (6), and the other by Viswanathan (unpublished data) place the number of cases at 150,000 and 200,000 re...

Psychiatric onset Alexander disease: an important challenge in neuropsychiatric diagnosis

Introduction: Alexander disease is a heterogenous group of diseases with various manifestations based on age of disease onset. This rare leukodystrophy syndrome with mutations in GFAP Gene could present with developmental delay and seizure in infantile form to ataxia and bulbar palsy in adulthood. However psychiatric symptoms are not well-defined and usually evaluate after disease diagnosis not...

A two-stage mathematical model for evacuation planning and relief logistics in a response phase

Crises and natural disasters are always existed in human history, and continue to exist in the future; therefore, people are always affected by these natural disasters. Hence, evacuation planning after natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, fire, storms, warfare and nuclear explosions) is vital. Given that natural disasters cause irreparable financial loss and the loss of life ...

Deeds of Violence in India in 1935-36 and 1945-46, and Other Crimes in Which Serology Plays a Part

This communication follows a similar communication published ten years ago (Greval, 1937). Exhibits for tracing origin of blood, etc., are received in the department of the (Imperial*) Serologist and Chemical Examiner to the Government of India, from all over India (and Burma), in connection with over 70 crimes described in the Indian Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code, and listed in table I.