Reports on the working of the Contagious Diseases Act in Calcutta for 1872-73
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pp 85-116. Reports from the Surgeon General, the Commissioner of Police, and Superintendents of Lock Hospitals, rich in statistics. Plus correspondence thereon.
Observations of the Army Sanitary Commission on the Bengal Sanitary Reports for 1872
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pp 09-16. Correspondence between Surgeon Major J Pilcher, Officiating Sanitary Commissioner for Bengal, and the Government of Bengal, regarding the remarks of the Army Sanitary Commission.
Question as to the legality of the orders issued by the Commanding Officer of Moradabad Cantonment prohibiting the Indian servants of the residents to pass into the city at night
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pp 17-18. Letter from the Government of India to the Solicitor for Government, Calcutta, regarding regulations enforced following the cholera outbreak.
Proposal of Captain Beyts for remedying existing evils in the Red Sea pilgrim traffic
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pp 57-58.Communication from the Government of India regarding the proposed supervisory establishment at Jeddah, and the existing regulations in the Native Passenger Ships Act.
Final report of the Committee on the Improvement of Simla
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pp 19-55. Copy report regarding water supply, conservancy and the constitution of the Municipality, plus minute thereon by the Viceroy and comments by the Government of India.
pp 281-83. Communication from the Secretary of State for India to the Governor General of India in Council, regarding the sanitary improvements needed in Simla as summer seat of the Government of India, and arrangements for funding.
pp 239-57. Correspondence regarding the proposed International Sanitary Convention designed to give practical effect to the conclusions of the Vienna Sanitary Conference 1874, and the measures implemented following the Constantinople Sanitary Conference 1866. Discusses research into cholera; qua...