Report of the Calcutta Medical Institutions for the Year 1878
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By James Irving, M.D., Surgeon-General for Bengal. The Report which chronicles the annual transactions, of the large and important hospitals and dispensaries of Calcutta and its suburbs, is always an interesting one, and the report for 1878 is in many respects specially so. The year was one of much distress and sickness in the city and its surroundings ; prices of food staples ruled high; fever, cholera and small-pox were rampant, and the death-rate of the town was, as we showed in a recent
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