Sanitation in Bombay and Its Neighbourhood

Sanitation in India

-By J. A. Turner, m.d., D.P.H., Executive Health Officer, Bombay Municipality. The Times of India, Bombay. Under the above title Dr. Turner lias brought out a work of over a thousand pages dealing in a masterly manner and in considerable detail with all that concerns sanitation, particularly as to its application under the adverse conditions which obtain in India. The text is largely an amplifi...

Effects of neighbourhood and household sanitation conditions on diarrhea morbidity: Systematic review and meta-analysis

Sanitation in neighbourhood and household domains can provide primary protection against diarrhea morbidity, yet their distinct health benefits have not been succinctly distinguished and reviewed. We present here the first systematic review and meta-analysis of the distinct effect of neighbourhood and household sanitation conditions on diarrhea morbidity. We identified studies reporting the eff...

Sanitation of Bombay

Governing the Contaminated City: Infrastructure and Sanitation in Colonial and Post-Colonial Bombay

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...