Dictionary of Indian Biography/Cunningham, James Macnabb
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CUNNINGHAM, JAMES MACNABB (1829–1905)
Educated at Edinburgh University : M.D. : entered the Bengal Medical Ser- vice, 1851 : Secretary to the Sanitary Commissioner, 1866 : Professor of Hygiene, Calcutta Medical College, 1866 : Sanitary Commissioner, Bengal, 1869 : Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, 1875–85, and Surgeon-General, 1880–5 : retired, 1885 : Member of the Army Sanitary Committee, 1891–96 : author of Cholera—what can the State do to Prevent it ? represented the Government of India at the Paris International Sanitary Congress, 1894 : C.S.I., 1885 : Honorary Surgeon to the Queen, 1888 : died June 26, 1905.