Annual Sanitary Report of the Central Provinces for the year 1869
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pp 129-406. Copy report, including a narrative of the cholera epidemic of that year; plus comments by the Secretary to the Chief Commissioner, Central Provinces. The report is divided into two Sections: I. Climate. II. Vital statistics, including Summary of the History of the Cholera Epidemic of...
Remarks on sanitation in Oudh, and the mortality from cholera and fever
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pp 149-59. Comprising: Remarks of the Army Sanitary Commission on the Sanitary Report for the Province of Oude [Oudh], 1872. Remarks of the Army Sanitary Commission on the Sanitary Report for the Province of Oude [Oudh], 1873. Remarks by the Army Sanitary Commission on the sanitary condition of ...
pp 115-17. Communication from W H Colvill, Civil Surgeon at Baghdad, Turkish Arabia, regarding the upcoming International Sanitary Conference on the transmission of cholera and plague, the value of quarantine restrictions in preventing the spread of cholera, and the current arrangements in Persi...
Precautions taken due to apparent plague outbreak in Mecca
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pp 371-72. Government of India forward to the Government of the Punjab copy extracts from the Aden News Report, plus translated letter from Sheikh Esaw Ben Khuleefa, Chief of Bahrain, advising that as a precaution against plague transmission, pilgrims will be prevented from entering Mecca.
Registration of sub-soil water levels to test Pettenkofer's theory of cholera
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pp 49-51. Government of Bengal request information as to whether they should continue with sub-soil water registration. Communication from the Government of India to the Presidency and Provincial Governments, ordering that registration be amended for a more extended use, and combined with informa...
Conduct of Dr De Renzy, Sanitary Commissioner with the Punjab, in publishing his Remarks on the Report of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India on the Cholera Epidemic of 1872 in Northern India
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pp 61-78. Government of the Punjab forward copy statement by A C C De Renzy regarding the circumstances surrounding the publication of his pamphlet, discussing in detail the disagreement between himself and J M Cuningham over the aetiology of cholera, and enclosing copy articles from The Lancet,...
pp 375-79. Colonel J P Nixon [John Pigott], Her Majesty's Consul General, Baghdad, forwards copy telegrams regarding the imposition of quarantine in Baghdad as a result of an outbreak of plague, and declaring Bussorah [Al-Basrah] to be infected. Telegrams received from: Syud Mahomed Redif, Govern...
Observations made regarding Professor Pettenkofer's theory on the origin and propagation of cholera
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pp 345-47. A De Renzy, Sanitary Commissioner with the Punjab, forwards register of the level of sub-soil water for 1870-74, and measurements taken at Gurjanwalla during the cholera epidemic of 1872, comparing water-level to cholera mortality. Plus comments by De Renzy on Pettenkofer's theory and ...