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.
pp 135-39. Government of Bengal forward two reports regarding the conservancy, sanitation and cholera outbreaks in the areas surrounding the river Hooghly: by J F Beatson, Surgeon-General, Indian Medical Department, and Surgeon-Major J Ewart, Surgeon Superintendent of the Presidency General Hospi...
pp 123-24. Correspondence, plus request from the Government of India for a report on the existing quarantine arrangements, their effectiveness and cost, and whether there have been any instances where an absence of enforced quarantine procedure allowed the importation and spread of disease.
p 133. Copy telegram from the Resident at Bushire, advising Government of the apparent appearance of plague, that vessels arriving from Busreh [Basra] will be inspected, and advising the same measures be adopted at Muscat. Government of India request that suitable measures be taken.
Extension of the Lock Hospital Rules within a radius of half a mile round the rifle range at Haraura near Benares
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pp 141-53. Reports and correspondence. Includes fold-out map at p. 151, compiled from the District Map prepared by the Divisional Engineers Office and Surveyor General's Map of Cantonment Lines and City, 1869, and showing the Cantonment boundary, the Lock Hospital area, and the proposed extension.
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.
Improvements of the Boree Bunder Infantry Lines, Bombay
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pp 179-84. Correspondence between the Governments of India and Bombay, plus report by J Lumsdaine, Sanitary Commissioner for Bombay. Includes maps and diagrams of the lines and sanitation features on page 182.
Improvement of the sanitary state of villages around cantonments
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pp 185-86. Request from Major-General F Roberts, Quarter Master General, that Provincial Sanitary Commissioners acquaint themselves with villages in the neighbourhood of 30 miles of military cantonments, to assess sanitation and the possibility of disease transported by the movement of labour.