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*[http://digital.nls.uk/indiapapers/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=74908458 ''Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission of 1893 -94'']. Volume 1: Report, Volume 2: Appendices - Enquiry as to the Connection Between Hemp Drugs and Insanity, Volume 3: Appendices – Miscellaneous, Volume 4: Evidence of Witnesses from Bengal and Assam, Volume 5: Evidence of Witnesses from North-Western Provinces and Oudh and Punjab, (not digitized at August 2014), Volume 6: Evidence of Witnesses from Central Provinces and Madras, Volume 7: Evidence of Witnesses from Bombay, Sind, Berar, Ajmere, Coorg, Baluchistan and Burma, Volume 8: Supplementary Volume - Answers Received to Selected Questions for the Native Army. National Library of Scotland-Medical History of British India
*[http://digital.nls.uk/indiapapers/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=74908458 ''Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission of 1893 -94'']. Volume 1: Report, Volume 2: Appendices - Enquiry as to the Connection Between Hemp Drugs and Insanity, Volume 3: Appendices – Miscellaneous, Volume 4: Evidence of Witnesses from Bengal and Assam, Volume 5: Evidence of Witnesses from North-Western Provinces and Oudh and Punjab, (not digitized at August 2014), Volume 6: Evidence of Witnesses from Central Provinces and Madras, Volume 7: Evidence of Witnesses from Bombay, Sind, Berar, Ajmere, Coorg, Baluchistan and Burma, Volume 8: Supplementary Volume - Answers Received to Selected Questions for the Native Army. National Library of Scotland-Medical History of British India
*[http://archive.org/stream/currenthistoryfo16newyuoft#page/948/mode/2up “The Cocaine Traffic in India”] page 949 ''Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times Volume 16, April-  September 1922'' Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/currenthistoryfo16newyuoft#page/948/mode/2up “The Cocaine Traffic in India”] page 949 ''Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times Volume 16, April-  September 1922'' Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/b24758450 ''Around the world via India : a medical tour''] by Nicholas Senn 1905. Contains chapters on India and Ceylon, including hospitals. Archive.org
*[http://digital.nls.uk/indiapapers/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=74905433&mode=transcription  "List of Stations at which Military Family Hospitals are authorised"] An Appendix from  ''Regulations for the Medical Services of the Army of India 1930''  National Library of Scotland 'Medical History of British India' digital books
*[http://digital.nls.uk/indiapapers/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=74905433&mode=transcription  "List of Stations at which Military Family Hospitals are authorised"] An Appendix from  ''Regulations for the Medical Services of the Army of India 1930''  National Library of Scotland 'Medical History of British India' digital books
*[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/102/4/217.full.pdf  "The Spine Pad: A Discarded Item of Tropical Clothing: An Historical and Physiological Survey"] by  E. T. Renbourn ''Journal of the  Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1956;102:4 pages 217-233. Also includes helmets.
*[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/102/4/217.full.pdf  "The Spine Pad: A Discarded Item of Tropical Clothing: An Historical and Physiological Survey"] by  E. T. Renbourn ''Journal of the  Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1956;102:4 pages 217-233. Also includes helmets.

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Occupations

Occupations in the field of public health include:

See also, Indian Subordinate Medical Department

FIBIS resources

  • "Lost and Found-the records of Pembroke House" by Sylvia Dibbs FIBIS Journal Number 28 (Autumn 2012) pages 41-46 . Captain John Dibbs was a patient at the Lunatic Asylum at Bhowanipur in 1836 and was admitted to Pembroke House, the lunatic asylum run by the East India Company for its afflicted personnel, in Hackney London in 1837. See FIBIS Journals for details of how to access this article.
  • "Owen Berkeley-Hill and Psychiatry in India" by Mike Young" FIBIS Journal Number 30 (Autumn 2013) pages 8-20

Recommended Reading

  • Science and the Changing Environment in India 1780-1920: A Guide to Sources in the India Office Records by Richard Axelby and Savithri Preetha Nair 2009. The guide is arranged in eleven chapters including one in respect of health and disease including medical education. For full review see Research guides reading list

See also

External links

  • Medical History of British India, many Disease and Public Health reports, including military reports, from 19th and 20th century British India, from the National Library of Scotland, available online.
The Online Project is described in this 2009 link[1]

Historical books online

Investigation and Report by two American missionaries into the government sanctioned brothels in British Army cantonments. It is believed the authors visited India after the Cantonment Act of 1889, perhaps c early 1890s.
[Volume B] Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations 1864 with Map of India showing the Military Stations c 1864 and "Abstract of Sanitary Details in Reports from Principal Military Stations in Bengal" page 335 (Madras Presidency page 403 Bombay 443) Archive.org. The first 156 pages in Volume B is the same information as the first 196 pages in Volume A. Volume B also contains
[Volume C] Observations on the evidence contained in the Stational Reports submitted to her by the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India by Florence Nightingale 1863
Volumes A, B, C overlap and form part of the contents of two additional publications Volumes I and II, which contain the detailed evidence given to the Commissioners. The balance of the pages may be found on the subscription website "House of Commons Parliamentary Papers", as part of Paper number 3184 of 1863 - Document type: Command Papers; Reports Of Commissioners. Additional information commences from Volume I, page 133: Minutes of evidence ; Addenda. Volume II commences page 1094: Appendix: Reports from stations in India and its dependencies occupied by British and native troops ; Reports of inspectors-general of hospitals ; Reports on stations in Ceylon. (total pages over 2000). (Volume I and II are also available to download as a pdf, on a restricted basis, from GIPE Digitised Books Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune.)

References

  1. Usher, Jan (2009). "The Medical History of British India Online Project" from Positioning the Profession: the Tenth International Congress on Medical Librarianship, Brisbane, Australia, August 31-September 4, 2009.