2128: Report by the President of the Sanitary Commission for Bengal on the subject of the great mortality which occurred on board certain ships conveying emigrants from Calcutta to British Guiana and Trinidad in 1864-1865, together with a copy of the connected correspondence
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.20 of 1866, dated 27 Mar 1866. The ships concerned were Athletœ, Clarence, Earl Russell, Golden South, Ganges, Fusilier, and Newcastle. The report concluded that the mortality was largely due to a fatal and infectiou...
2513: Reports from the Sanitary Commissioner for the Bengal Presidency, and from the Governments of Madras and Bombay, on the Reverend H Moule's dry earth sewage system
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.124 of 1867, dated 11 July 1867.
2538: Papers regarding the Police and Conservancy arrangements which were made on the occasion of the 1867 Hardwar Fair [Kumbh Mela], together with a copy of a Circular inviting the opinion of the Local Governments and Administrations as to the best means of discouraging the periodical resort of people in large numbers to the various centres of pilgrimage in India, and of adopting efficient sanitary arrangements at such places to check the outbreak and propagation of epidemic disease
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.156 of 1867, dated 27 August 1867. As well as correspondence relating to the 1867 Hardwar Fair, and a copy of the Government of India Circular, dated 21st August 1867, the collection contains the following papers: rep...