Proposed introduction into schools of elementary instruction in sanitary matters, and diffusion among the masses of a knowledge of simple sanitary rules
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pp 871-922. Responses to three suggestions made by the Army Sanitary Commission: 1) as to the owners of villages being held responsible for the sanitary condition; 2) as to the issue of short and explicit rules and recommendations by the Sanitary Commission for the guidance of the people; 3) as ...
Outbreaks of scurvy on board ships sailing form the ports of Bassein and Rangoon
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p 923. Communications received from the Board of Trade and Secretary of State, expressing concerns that bad water obtained at ports is causing the disease.
Army Sanitary Commission memorandum on the Bengal Sanitary Report for 1877
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pp 795-811. With comments regarding the observations on cholera aetiology by Dr Crombie, and his remarks about the absence of cholera cases during the flood season. Secretary of State recommends further local investigation into the matter.
Memorandum of the Army Sanitary Commission on the Report of the Sanitary Commissioner for Madras for 1877
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pp 813-33. Includes discussion of the famine in Madras, and D D Cunningham's paper On certain effects of starvation on vegetable and animal tissues (1877).