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Inspection of villages within a radius of 30 miles of military cantonments
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pp 275-78. Correspondence regarding the request that Provincial Sanitary Commissioners inspect villages in the area of the Cantonment, including comments by A C C De Renzy, Sanitary Commissioner with the Punjab.
Transmission of reports by Major R Ross to Deputy Surgeon General Charles
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p 725. Ross informs the Government of India that he has already supplied Dr Charles with reports and information to pass on to Italian malaria researchers.
Scheme for the establishment of a Central Lunatic Asylum in Bengal
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pp 1149-63. Correspondence regarding the proposal to amalgamate the Lunatic Asylums at Dullunda, Patna, and Berhampur into a Central Asylum at Berhampur, with details of the proposed establishment.
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 ...
Remarks on the Report of the Sanitary Commissioner for Bengal for the year 1873
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pp 85-93. Government of Bengal forward Resolution by the Lieutenant-Governor regarding the Annual Report for the year 1873, and the report on the epidemic fever in Burdwan and Beerbhoom. Plus comments thereon by the Government of India.
Remarks of the Army Sanitary Commission on the improvement of public health in Calcutta
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p 249. Commission remarks favourably on the reduction in mortality in Calcutta and on the manner in which sanitary reforms have been carried out. Comments on the relationship between the sanitary reforms and the decline in cholera cases, but states that it is too early to draw conclusions.
Reports on the Lock Hospitals in the North-Western Provinces for the year 1875
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pp 555-695. Summary report by C Planck, Sanitary Commissioner with the North-Western Provinces, plus full reports on the operation of Lock Hospitals at Bareilly, Meerut, Agra, Cawnpore [Kānpur], Allahabad, Benares [Vārānasi], Ranikhet, Naini Tal, Chakrata, Roorkee, Moradabad, Shahjahanpur, Muttra...
Inspection of the sanitary condition of villages in the neighbourhood of Cantonments in Bengal
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pp 643-48. Remarks on the proposed inspection regime made by J M Coates, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of Bengal; plus comments thereon by the Government of India.