Expunging Variola: The Control and Eradication of Smallpox ...
Sanjoy Bhattacharya
The government of independent India was allowing political factors – in this case, an effort to win the support of a potential ... disputes with China – to affect the pricing of medical supplies, with the cost of these subsidies being borne by state finances. Some elements of the Bombay government were, of course, not at all pleased with these moves, especially as there ... they asked the General Department to inform the Local Self-Government and Public Health Department that their “letter ...