Abstract
THE sixth report on plague investigations in India, which, like preceding reports, has this year been issued as a supplement to The Journal of Hygiene, is in large part made up of a continuation by Dr. M. Greenwood of the statistical examination of plague as it occurs in the Punjab. In the application of statistical methods to a subject-matter so complex it is a considerable advantage to the investigator to have himself personal experience of the methods, particular conditions, and so on affecting the collection of the data with which he has to deal, and adds cogency not so much to the facts elucidated as to the conclusions based upon these facts. It is particularly unfortunate, therefore, that the death of Major Lamb deprived Dr. Greenwood of the assistance which his wide experience and knowledge of local circumstances would have afforded. Major Lamb, of whom a memoir is included in the report, was one of the most brilliant members of the Indian Medical Service, and his untimely death in this country has taken from plague research in India one of the ablest, keenest, and at the same time best-informed of its students.
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Plague in India . Nature 89, 177–178 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089177b0
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