Public health

Occupations

Occupations in the field of public health include:

• Apothecary
• Assistant Surgeon
• Doctor including Surgeon
• Hospital or Medical Apprentice
• Nurse including Midwife
• Steward

See also, Indian Subordinate Medical Department

Records at the British Library

• 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. Available through Amazon.co.uk from the FIBIS Shop

See also

• Madras bibliography which contains references to the medical history of Madras

External links

• Medical History of British India, nearly 50 Disease and Public Health reports from 19th and 20th century British India, from the National Library of Scotland, available online.
• “Public Health in British India: A Brief Account of the History of Medical Services and Disease Prevention in Colonial India” by Muhammad Umair Mushtaq Indian Journal of Community Medicine. 2009 January; 34(1): 6–14
• Leprosy in the Bombay Presidency 1840-1897 Perceptions and Approaches to its Control. A PhD thesis in History by Shubhada S Pandya 2001
• “Leprosy in British India 1860-1940: Colonial Politics and Missionary Medicine” by Sanjiv Kakar Medical History 1996, 40, 215-230
• “India: Scientific Investigation of Epidemic and Endemic Disease” British Medical Journal 7 February 1914. Details Research Institutes and some of the people involved.
• Deccan Queen: A Spatial Analysis of Poona in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Wayne Thomas Mullen. Sydney University Digital Theses 26-Mar-2006. A thesis which is “structured around the analysis of a model that describes the Cantonment, the Civil Lines, the Sadr Bazar and part of the Native City of the Western Indian settlement of Poona in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.” Contains sections on public health topics
• 'The best east of Suez,' they described MH [The Madras Maternity Hospital] Madras Musings, June 1-15, 2009, Where they see, hear and dream Ob & Gyn Madras Musings, June 16-30, 2009
• Indian Hemp Drugs Commission of 1893 -94. Details of the facsimile reprint which is is now available. SAALG Blog. These may be purchased through Amazon.co.uk from the FIBIS Shop as follows
  • 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, 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

Historical books online

• “Report no.28:Reports on the Asylums for European and Native Insane Patients at Bhowanipore and Dullunda for 1856 and 1857” from Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal 1858 Google Book
• From England to the Antipodes & India - 1846 to 1902, with startling revelations, or 56 years of my life in the Indian Mutiny, Police & Jails, pages 46-52 by Isaac Tyrell (1904) Archive.org, describe a cholera epidemic in the 43rd Regiment of Foot in 1857 when 48 men, 6 women and 26 children died in a few days. Page 36 describes successful, but non conventional, treatment for dysentery, c 1854-1855, the author was then in the 96th Regiment of Foot.
• On the preservation of the health of seamen, especially of those frequenting Calcutta and the other Indian ports by Norman Chevers MD, Surgeon, Bengal Army 1864 Google Books
• Tropical hygiene for residents in tropical and sub-tropical climates by Sir Charles Pardey Lukis, Robert James Blackham, 3rd edition 1915 Archive.org