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THE annual report of the All-India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Calcutta, recently issued, summarizes the teaching and research work for the year 1937. Statistical investigations on cholera have been pursued; for example, forecasts of epidemics, and research on variations in the chemical structure and antigenic properties of the cholera vibrio. An inquiry into the nature of an obscure disease, epidemic dropsy, has incriminated mustard oil (much used in cooking) as the causative agent, though what constituent of it is responsible still remains to be discovered. An account of the work of the Maternity and Child Welfare Centre is included.
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Hygiene and Public Health in India. Nature 144, 362 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144362a0
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