Volume-I, Issue-II, November, 2024
Volume-I, Issue-II, November, 2024 |
ঔপনিবেশিক আমলে মুর্শিদাবাদ জেলার জনস্বাস্থ্য বিষয়ক একটি পর্যালোচনা মেহেবুব হোসেন, গবেষক, ইতিহাস বিভাগ, আলিয়া বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, কলকাতা, ভারত |
Received: 10.11.2024 | Accepted: 29.11.2024 | Published Online: 30.11.2024 | Page No: 227-237 |
DOI: 10.69655/atmadeep.vol.1.issue.02W.027 | |||
A Review of Public Health in Murshidabad District During the Colonial Period Mehebub Hossain, Research Scholar, Department of History, Aliah University, Kolkata, India | ||
ABSTRACT | ||
Social and economic growth largely depends on people’s health. Through this paper an attempt has been made to give an idea about the public health condition of Murshidabad district during the colonial era. Many changes were seen in the field of public health and medical care system in India during the period of study. This time the people’s health condition of India deteriorated because various contagious and infectious diseases were seen again and again as epidemic form. The situation of Bengal was immensely pathetic. The people of Murshidabad district also experienced with various types of diseases during the period of study. According to various sources the people’s health condition of Murshidabad had deteriorated drastically since the beginning of the nineteenth century. The trade city of Cossimbazar and its neighboring urban areas were depopulated by the epidemic cholera, malaria etc. Horrible images of fever, cholera can be seen in the various medical reports, census report, sanitary commission’s reports and governmental documents. Western medicines such as allopathic and homeopathy were introduced under the government patronage to combat grim diseases like cholera, malaria, smallpox, kala-azar, plague, etc. This period also saw the conflict of interest between indigenous medical science and western medicine. Government’s health policies were conducted in the context of imperialist attitude and were basically city centric. | ||
Key Words : Health, Diseases, Colonial, Bengal, Murshidabad. |