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See also page [[Calcutta, Dum Dum Gun Carriage Factory Railway|'Dum Dum Gun Carriage Factory' - ''for further information'']]
==Dum Dum fever==
'''Dum Dum fever''' is the disease visceral Leishmaniasis, also known as Kala-azar, or Black fever, spread by sandflies, which has many features in common with chronic malaria, and at one time was prevalent at Dum Dum. The disease was subsequently named after William Leishman, a doctor in the Royal Army Medical Corps who published his findings in 1903, based on post mortem pathology of a British soldier who had died while stationed at Dum Dum.<ref>[https://web.stanford.edu/group/parasites/ParaSites2006/Leishmaniasis/history.htm Leishmaniasis : History] web.stanford.edu. [https://www.deduveinstitute.be/~opperd/parasites/leish4.htm Leishmaniases: the Diseases] deduveinstitute.be</ref>
==Second World War==
==External links==
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V11_382.gif Dum-Dum] Imperial Gazetteer
*[httphttps://www.metmuseum.org/Collectionsart/collection/search-the-collections/287854 287848 Photograph: Dum Dum Church] [St Stephen's] by Captain R. B. Hill 1850s. Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. Probably Richard Barton Hill 1835-1873, who joined the Bengal Army in 1853.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20161023104556/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/64028580 Photograph: St. Patrick's Church, Dumdum Cantonment, Kolkata] panoramio.com, now archived.
*[http://ordnancedumdum.nic.in/history/history.php Ordnance Factory Dum Dum: History]
