Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Proceedings of the First All-India Sanitary Conference Held at Bombay on 13th and 14th November 1911
Author: Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940
Author: S. PoluPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137009322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of political and epidemiological risk to shape infectious disease policies in colonial India.
The Calcutta Gazette
Author: The Proceedings of the First All-India Sanitary Conference
Author: UNKNOWN. AUTHORPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781332182183
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Excerpt from The Proceedings of the First All-India Sanitary Conference: Held at Bombay on 13th and 14th November 1911 The proceedings which were held in the Council Chamber of the Bombay Secretariat opened with the following speech by the President: - "Gentlemen, "My first duty, and most agreeable I find it, is to welcome you all to this conference, and, in so doing, on behalf of the Government of India to thank the local Governments and Administrations and yourselves for your presence here. The utility of conferences of this kind is now, I think, generally appreciated, and that not only for any conclusions to which they may lead though these must often be valuable but also and especially for the opportunities which they present to zealous workers in different parts of India for comparing experience, exchanging ideas, and above all for setting up that energising friction of mind with mind the want of which most men toiling in isolation feel at times as a burden well-nigh intolerable. Nor can it be a disadvantage that we should get to know one another. Holding this opinion, I earnestly hope that this may be the first of a series of conferences to be held as occasion may suggest at convenient centres. I was anxious that our first meeting should be held in Bombay in order that we might perhaps catch some of the spirit of the place, the spirit which has made it the great and beautiful and progressive city that we see to-day. The agenda before us open up large questions of research work and hygiene, the two great and complementary divisions into which modern sanitation falls. By research I mean the acquisition of further knowledge of the specific agents of infective diseases and by hygiene the preservation of the public health and the remedy of known defects. You will discuss problems of urban sanitation, town-planning, water-supply, drainage and conservancy; rural sanitation; and special sanitation, more particularly epidemic diseases and food-supplies. You will also discuss vital statistics and improvement in their registration; and various scientific enquiries will be brought before you. I will not attempt to anticipate the course or the conclusions of your discussion, and I will not intervene with more than a few introductory observations. The basis of all sanitary achievement in India must be a knowledge of the people and the conditions under which they live, their prejudices, their ways of life, their social customs, their habits, surroundings and financial means. This was emphasised in the memorandum of Surgeon-General Lukis, to whose knowledge and rare ability my department is greatly indebted, which I laid upon the table at the last meeting of the Imperial Legislative Council. The proposition is really axiomatic. The ardent spirits who may think that sanitary measures possible and effective in the West must be possible and effective in India will flap their wings in vain and set back the cause which claims their laudable enthusiasm. I am far from saying that this must always be so. I believe with all my heart in the slow but sure results of education, the forerunner of sanitation. But we have to deal with facts as they are to-day. And to-day the forefront of a sanitary programme must be (1) a reasoned account of the conditions and circumstances which affect mortality and the increase and decrease of populations and (2) a study of the relative effects of various diseases, of personal environment and of the social and economic conditions in the different parts of the Indian Empire. We have to work out our own sanitary salvation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
General Catalogue of All Publications of the Government of India and Local Governments and Administrations ...
Author: IndiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Guts of the Matter
Author: James L. A. Webb, JrPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108493432
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This engaging interdisciplinary study integrates the deep histories of infectious intestinal disease transmission, the sanitation revolution, and biomedical interventions.
General Catalogue of All Publications of the Government of India
Author: IndiaParliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
Report
Author: Commonwealth Shipping CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
Book Description
Colonizing the Body
Author: David ArnoldPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520082953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
In this innovative analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India, David Arnold explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became a critical battleground between the colonized and the colonizers. Focusing on three major epidemic diseases—smallpox, cholera, and plague—Arnold analyzes the impact of medical interventionism. He demonstrates that Western medicine as practiced in India was not simply transferred from West to East, but was also fashioned in response to local needs and Indian conditions. By emphasizing this colonial dimension of medicine, Arnold highlights the centrality of the body to political authority in British India and shows how medicine both influenced and articulated the intrinsic contradictions of colonial rule.