CONTENTS: List of Abbreviations, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. The Health of the European Poor, 2. Disease Deities and Curatives in English Languahge Sources, 3. Florence Nighingale and Her Interest in the Bombay Presidency, 4. Bhalchandra Krishna Bhatwadekar and Public Health (1852-1922), 5. Nasserwanji Hormusji Choksy and the Treatment of Infectious Diseases (1861-1939), 6. Sanitary Improvements in Urbs Prima in Indis, 7. Pilgrimage Control, 8. Coping with Diseases in the Towns and Villages of the Presidency, 9. Influenza Pandemic, 1918, Re-visited, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index. 356pp,. Bombay Presidency, 1850–1920: Disease, Sanitation and Public Health Personalities examines the defining shifts in health and medicine, in Bombay Presidency, over seven decades. This work focuses on the major health and sanitation problems of the nineteenth century: the health of the European poor, battling alcoholism and venereal diseases; the views of Indian men and women doctors, about diseases, curatives and birthing practices.