eevi Proceedings of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
bullock pee would be suitable ; the personnel and — 
should be such that at each pla ce visited there would be 
(1) onic fodguniene by attractive posters and otherwise : 
(2) popular cinematograph lectures, free provision of medical aid 
and the distribution of leaflets; (3) when the confidence of the 
ople has been gained and their interest aroused a detailed 
enquiry into the diseases prevailing in a definite area would be 
made. 
If there were a census caravan for each district it would 
soon be possible to arrive at a knowledge of the state of affairs 
in a large number of sample areas all over India and so to 
prepare a survey of the diseases of the whole country. This 
gr 
disses: A map like this will be oda when it becomes 
possible to arrange for a systematic campaign against the pre- 
ventible diseases of India. 
In the United Provinces a survey of the distribution of 
hookworm disease was carried out recently under the direc- 
tion of a small committee appointed by Government. 
result is that the incidence of that disease in the province is 
known with some degree of accuracy. Thanks to the sugges- 
tion of the president of the committee, Col. Mactaggart, I.M.S., 
the survey was followed up by a course of peste to the 
medical men of the province at selected centres. This in itself 
more than justified the small expenditure ee in connec- 
tion with the enqui 
nother line of “research that could be organised very 
ree Ap is the collection of information from the case records 
made in the medica] schools and colleges. Many thousands of 
these ro me are made every year, but hardly any use has 
n made of them for the purpose of adding to our know- 
ledge of —— in India. If these records were kept in the 
tabular for whi ch was so successfully employed by Sir 
f 
would allow of its being analysed at a central bureau. All 
that is needed is a supply of blank forms for each disease ; 
these would be ruled in columns with suitable headings for the 
raanae regarding which information is required, and there would 
e a set of conventional signs by which the details could be 
recorded briefly and rapidly. The same kind of machinery 
teaching hospitals, it could be extended to every medical m 
who is prepared to help. This method of collecting re 
