ene, ee 
Asiatic Society of Bengal. XCVii 
Members : FESSENt 
Acton, ead He W3,-E-M.S Muir, Dr. A. 
Bentley, Dr. C. A. Stewart, Major A. D., I.M.S. 
Knowles, Major R., I.M.S. 
Visitors: 10, jashidiege = 
Iyengar, Mr. M. V. T. Mevail, Dr. B. 
The minutes of the last meeting were confirmed and signed. 
Bentley, M.D., D.P.H., Director of Public 
Health, Bengal, read a paper on & The Economics of Bengal 
Malaria 
This paper was subsequently published in the Indian 
Medical Gazette for September 1922. Dr. Bentley’: 
contention was that the malaria problem of Bengal was 
some areas, especially in Western and Central Bengal economic 
conditions are bad, population has declined, the people live 
below the basal economic line, and here ma alaria has steadily 
increased and has now become a very serious problem, In 
Eastern Bengal on the other bai the people are relatively well 
off owing to jute cultivation, they live above the basal 
economic ‘line, the annual flooding of large areas destroys the 
anopheline larve, and malaria has been and is declining. 
Bengal being deltaic in ‘hinasioe the one most important 
measure for the eradication of malaria from the aghast — 
be the introduction of controlled flooding of the country, o 
the lines used in Egypt. Dr. Bentley then went on to dusrite 
how, in some areas elsewhere in India, such flooding has reduced 
malarial prevalence. The paper was illustrated by a large 
number of lantern slides, and the publication of Dr. Bentley’s 
views on the subject has led to an interesting controversy in 
both the medical and lay-papers and renewed interest in the 
problem 
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| JUNE, 1922. 
A meeting of the Medical Section of the Society was held 
on Wednesday, the 14th June, 1922. 
Dr. Upendranath Brahmachari, Rai Bahadur, M.A., M.D., 
Ph.D., F.A.S.B., in the chair 
Minshers > PRESENT. 
tee. fe Gourlay, Lt.-Col. C. A., D.S.O., 
Sennen ee R., M.S, Muir, Dr, E, 
Visitors: 21. 
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