Note on Platform-Dwellings in Assam.

A Note on Fevers of the Typhus Group in Assam

While carrying out routine Widal tests at the Pasteur Institute Laboratory, Shillong, we met from time to time with specimens from patients in Assam whose history suggested enteric fever, but whose serum gave Widal reactions not in the least indicative of that disease, even when repeated two or three times at weekly intervals. Whilst this, of course, is a common enough experience in any laborat...

A Note on the Medical Ethnology of Tuberculosis in the Hills and Frontier Tracts of Assam

In attempting to introduce, for the first time, among primitive oriental peoples, a concept of tuberculosis based on scientific truth, the acceptance of which, even in the western world, is little more than fifty years old, it is plainly of interest, and of some importance, to endeavour to ascertain the nature of the beliefs regarding tuberculosis which are actually current among the primitive ...

A Note on the Pathology of Kala-Azar, or Beri-Beri, of Assam

many years. Its clinical characteristics have been well recognized, and the relation established, which the disease bears to similar conditions in Ceylon, Burmah,the Dutch Colonies, etc., yet its etiology still remains obscure. The term Beri-Beri has been used in many instances to denote two conditions, in one of which the disease consists in peripheral neuritis affecting generally the lower li...

Collective dwellings

This paper presents evidence that the sustainable dwelling involves the collective use of spaces and services at home. By exploring the possibility of sharing spaces and services and establishing a common use, we will save space and energy, increase the economic efficiency of dwellings, and gain new forms of socialization between users. In order to find these new forms of socialization that sat...

A Report on Kala-Azar in Assam