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IN the annual report of the All-India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Calcutta, for 1934, the first to be issued, the events which led to the foundation of an All-India Institute of Hygiene are first recapitulated. The conception of providing courses of post-graduate training in public health originated with Sir Leonard Rogers, and as a result of his efforts the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine was founded and opened in 1920. It was realised that there was also need for the training of an Indian personnel in public health, but circumstances prevented the realisation of this object until the Rockefeller Foundation offered to provide funds for a site, and for the building and equipment of an institute, provided the Government of India undertook its maintenance. A site was acquired in 1930, and the building erected adjacent to the Tropical School, which was opened in 1932. The work of the Institute is carried on in six sections, and a representative staff has been appointed under the directorship of Lieut.-Col. A. D. Stewart, who is also the professor of hygiene. A description of the building is given, together with an account of the work of the sections, and of the research work that is in progress.
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All-India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health. Nature 136, 545–546 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136545d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136545d0