Growth of Public Health Care System in British India

The public healthcare system in India founded during colonial rule. At that time various researches and surveys were done, medical topography was prepared, legislations for public health were brought and various commissions were set up to monitor British troops by the colonial administration. Gradually this led to the foundation of public healthcare system in India. The period of 19th century and early 20th century India witnessed the development of new trends in medical systems and a transition from surveys to microscopic studies in medicine. The history of disease and their prevention in the colonial context traces back the epidemiology of infectious disease.