The Army Sanitary Commission on Typhoid Fever in India
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last. At the same time a report by Surgeon-General J. Kerr-Innes on the prevalence and causation of typhoid fever among European troops in the Bengal Command in 1876 was submitted for review, and the Commission deliberated on both documents simultaneously, and submitted to the Secretary of State for India a memorandum containing the result of their deliberations. The memorandum does not advance any fact or view of much novelty, but it discusses the
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دوره 14 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016