Results of the experiments made in the Province of Oudh to test Professor Pettenkofer's theory on the origin and propagation of cholera
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pp 679-84. Reports received from the Chief Commissioner of Oudh regarding results obtained in experiments to test Professor Pettenkofer's theory of cholera aetiology, including registers kept at Lucknow, Fyzabad, Pertabgurh and Kheree showing distance of sub-soil water lever from ground, rainfall...
Want of uniformity in the Sanitary Reports sent to the India Office; discontinuance of the reports on water analysis
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pp 777-819. Correspondence, plus reports on water analysis performed in Calcutta, and report of the Chemical Examiner to the Government of the Punjab on an examination of waters.
Observations by the Army Sanitary Commission on the replies of Officers and Departments to the remarks of the Commission on the Report of the Sanitary Commissioner for Bombay for 1871
Difference of opinion between the Collector of Malabar and the Civil Surgeon of Calicut as to the classification of deaths during 1875-1876
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p. 235. Regarding a disease which the Collector identified as cholera, but which the Civil Surgeon recorded under the heading 'bowel complaints' in the annual reports. Government of India express their view that Madras had suffered from a particularly bad cholera epidemic that year.
Analysis of red cinchona bark; and consignment made over to Messrs Howards, who extracted from it 803lbs of febrifuge
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pp 187-88. Dispatch from the Secretary of State, informing the Governor General that 200 bags of red cinchona bark were made over to Messrs Howards, who extracted from it 803lbs of febrifuge. The letter also forwards copies of the following: Report of Dr B H Paul, London Analytical Laboratory, o...
A short account of the introduction of Cinchona into Southern India, its cultivation and the preparation of the bark
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pp 125-33. Communication from the Revenue and Agricultural Department, forwarding for information a short account of the introduction of cinchona to Southern India, including a descriptive catalogue of specimens of woods, barks etc., and an analysis of different kinds of barks grown on the Govern...
