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Process for deodorizing and utilizing the refuse and filth of large towns and cantonments
Scope & Content:
pp 549-51. Correspondence regarding the experiment for the disposal and utilization of night-soil from Alipore Jail and at Darjeeling according to W R Gilbert Hickey's plan of carbonization; including description of the proposed apparatus and method, and comments by Dr Fawcus detailing the result...
Proposals to abolish general hospitals and allot to regimental surgeons the charge and management of the sick
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Proposals from Dr Balfour to increase the efficiency and reduce the cost of the medical administration by abolishing general hospitals and allotting to regimental surgeons the charge and management of the sick, both native and European.
Report on the analysis of certain remedies for the cure of cholera
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Report on the analysis of certain remedies for the cure of cholera received from T Pattaunah and his son Paupiah, native medical practitioners at Vizagapatam [Vishakhapatnam], together with extracts from two letters by Surgeon Beatson, who was instructed to communicate with the petitioners.
Collector of Ramnad to the Madras Medical Board regarding contagious fever
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Letter from the Collector of Ramnad detailing his opinions on the proposals of the Medical Board for remedying the effects of the contagious fever in the southern countries.