the extent of groundwater arsenic (as) contamination and associated health-risks were studiedin the four villages: chaukia and terahrasiya (vaishali); mamalkha and masharu (bhagalpur) in bihar, india.groundwater samples were tested using the standard silverdiethyledithiocarbamate method at 520nm bythermo uv-1 spectrophotometer. the as levels in both the districts exceeded the who standard of 10...

the extent of groundwater arsenic (as) contamination and associated health-risks were studiedin the four villages: chaukia and terahrasiya (vaishali); mamalkha and masharu (bhagalpur) in bihar, india.groundwater samples were tested using the standard silverdiethyledithiocarbamate method at 520nm bythermo uv-1 spectrophotometer. the as levels in both the districts exceeded the who standard of 10...

a new comer. The border districts are Nepal on the north, Bhagalpur on the west, Dinajpur on the east and Sonthal Parganas on the south. The water supply is mainly from shallow wells, 10 to 12 feet deep. Small hilly rivers intersect the district every where. There is abundant rainfall and great humidity of the atmosphere. The disease occurs in Purnea in sporadic form and except in three instanc...

was written by Captain E. A. R. Newman, i.m.s., in 1902 (see Indian Medical Gazette of September 1902). Up to that time 89 cases of the disease had occurred in this Central Jail since 1897, and the period October 1900 to March 1902 shewed 41 out of the 89 cases, the disease being epidemic at that time. In continuation of this report a list of further cases is given below, commencing where the r...

The following table is compiled from the records of the hospitals of the Central Jails at Bhagalpur and Alipore, and from the Morgue at Alipore, Calcutta. It is believed that it may be found useful in as far as such tables may be. We are not aware of any similar table which has been published giving the weights of viscera of natives of India except the one given in the Transactions of the First...