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

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.

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
• Military periodicals online-Army Medical Department Report which includes a section "On The Health of the Troops Serving in India". A broken range of editions from 1862-1897

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 html version, original pdf

• “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 volumes are also available to read online on the National Library of Scotland's website, refer above. They 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
• "Asylum Provision and the East India Company in the Nineteenth Century" by Waltraud Ernst Medical History 1998, 42:476-502 html version, original pdf
• Lunatic Asylums Arrive in Calcutta by Amit Ranjan Basu
• "Private psychiatric care in the past: With special reference to Chennai" by O. Somasundaram Indian J Psychiatry. 2008 Jan-Mar; 50(1): 67–69.
• Exercise to ease a troubled mind. This article mentions Pembroke House, many of whose patients were placed there by the East India Company. British Library Untold Lives 7 September 2012
• "The madness at Deolali" by N A Martin Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps. 2006 Jun; 152 (2):94-5 html version original pdf
• Prostitution in Colonial India by Sudhanshu Bhandari Mainstream, Vol XLVIII, No 26, June 19, 2010 mainstreamweekly.net
• "Venereal Disease, Prostitution, and the Politics of Empire: The Case of British India" by Phillipa Levine Journal of the History of Sexuality Vol. 4, No. 4, Apr., 1994 pages 579-602 html version, original pdf calstatela.edu
• "Sexually transmitted diseases and the Raj" by R Basu Roy Sexually Transmitted Infections 1998;74:20–26 html version, original pdf
• "Soldiers, Surgeons and the Campaigns to Combat Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Colonial India, 1805-1860" by Douglas M Peers Medical History 1998 April; 42(2): 137–160. (PubMed Central)
• "Sexually transmitted diseases in nineteenth and twentieth century India" by David Arnold Genitourinary Medicine 1993 February; 69(1): 3–8. (PubMed Central)
• "British Army Spine Pads" [a part of the uniform] by Stuart Bates , April 27, 2012 militarysunhelmets.com
• Fleas, Faith and Politics: Anatomy of an Indian Epidemic, 1890-1925 [Bubonic Plague] by Natasha Sarkar (M.A.), Bombay University. A thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of History, National University of Singapore 2011 html version, pdf version
• Another Madras first [The first pharmaceutical society in India] by S. Muthiah, 11 May 2009 The Hindu
• The ‘Apostle of Mesmerism in India’ Dr James Esdaile. Appointed Bengal Medical Service 1831, returned to England in 1851. British Library-Untold Lives 25 January 2013.
• The British Salt Tax. How Damaging? by Anuraag Sanghi July 29, 2011. Includes a link to Salt Starvation in British India – Consequences of High Salt Taxation in the Bengal Presidency, 1765 to 1878 by Roy Moxham

Historical books online

• Observations on Hepatic Diseases, Incidental to Europeans, in the East-Indies by Stephen Mathews, Surgeon 1783 Google Books
• An account of the rise and progress of the Indian or spasmodic cholera :with a particular description of the symptoms attending the disease : illustrated by a map, showing the route and progress of the disease, from Jessore, near the Ganges, in 1817, to Great Britain, in 1831.Published New Haven : L.H. Young, 1832. pds.lib.harvard.edu
• “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 Books
• Annual Report on the Insane Asylums in Bengal for the year... 1862, published 1863; 1870, published 1871 Google Books
• Report on the Drainage and Conservancy of Calcutta by David Boyes Smith M.D., Sanitary Commissioner for Bengal 1869 Google Books
• 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
• Fourth Annual report on the working of the lock-hospitals in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh for the year 1877 1878 Archive.org
• The Queen's Daughters in India by Elizabeth W. Andrew and Katharine C. Bushnell 1899. Investigation and Report by two American missionaries into the government sanctioned brothels in British Army cantonments. html version, original pdf godswordtowomen.org
• The Asiatic or Bengal Cholera of 1867 to 1873 by John C. Peters. 1874. Reprinted from Volume 1, Public Health Papers of American Public Health Association. Archive.org
• "In Plague Time" The Purnea cholera epidemic of 1887 page 14 The other way: respectfully dedicated to all good housewives by Ernest Forbes 1899 Archive.org
• The plague in India, 1896, 1897 by R Nathan, Indian Civil Service. Government of India Home Department 1898 Archive.org
  • Volume 1: Report, Volume 2 Appendices I to VI, Volume 3 Appendices VII to XII, Volume 4 Maps and Charts. These volumes have also been digitised by Harvard University Libraries. Compare the two versions for Volume 4 containing the maps.
• Minutes of Evidence taken by the Indian Plague Commission. Presented to both Houses of Parliament . Published 1900 Archive.org Volume I, Volume II, Volume III
• Enteric fever in India and in other tropical and sub-tropical regions: a study in epidemiology and military hygiene by Ernest Roberts, Major, Indian Medical Service. 1906 Archive.org
• Tropical hygiene for residents in tropical and sub-tropical climates by Sir Charles Pardey Lukis, Robert James Blackham, 3rd edition 1915 Archive.org
• Report of the committee appointed by the government of India to examine the question of the reorganization of the medical services in India (president: Sir Verney Lovett) April, 1919. Published 1920 Archive.org
• Pharmacopoeia of India, Prepared under the Authority of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council by Edward John Waring, assisted by a Committee appointed for the purpose 1868, Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia of India with explanatory and descriptive remarks in fourteen languages by Moodeen Sheriff 1869 Google Books
• Abstract of the proceedings of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, for the months of January, February, March and April 1870 Google Books