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Medical topography of the Nilgiri Hills, plus recommendations
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Letter from the Madras Medical Board, forwarding the following to the Governor in Council: Letter from Assistant Surgeon Richard England, recommending that a station be established at the Nilgiris for the recuperation of Company employees, that bungalows be constructed for that purposes, and req...
‘Sketch of a Plan’ [report] for a Botanical Garden on the Madras Establishment included with Letter dated 2 May 1800 Bangalore from Dr Benjamin Heyne to Lord Clive
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Plan advises regarding: 1. the suitability of locations ‘for the purpose and relative to the Countries which will benefit from it’ including comments on soil quality and composition and climate – particularly of Mysore, population, recommends ‘a little hill’ to provide a variety of soil types, a...
The Government instructs Dr Heyne regarding management of the Botanical Garden at Bangalore; he should use only the portion necessary for ‘exotics’.
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Letter from J. Webb, Secretary to Government at Fort St. George, to Dr Benjamin Heyne, directing him to use only the portion of the Botanical Garden at Bangalore necessary for it to be a temporary location [‘depot’] for plants ‘sent from Madras, or such rare or useful plants or Seeds as may be f...
Remarks by the Sanitary Commissioner on the report into the cholera outbreak at Umritsur [Amritsar] during 1869
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pp 893-94. Remarks by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, recommending that the proposed system of under-ground pipes for drainage and sewerage be experimentally trialled in a portion of the city; and commenting on the differing opinions of Dr DeRenzy and Bryden on ...
Observations by the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India on the system proposed by the Army Sanitary Commission for recording births, deaths and marriages in India
Review by the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India of the Reports of the local Sanitary Commissioners for 1868
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pp 857-76. Comprises: Letter from J Murray, Inspector General of Hospitals, Indian Medical Department, to J Geoghegan, Government of India, regarding the report on the cholera epidemic of 1868 by S C Townsend, commenting on the communicability of the disease. Report by J M Cunningham, Sanitary...
Memorandum on the dry-earth system of sewage by the War Office, Sanitary Commission
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pp 717-24. Copy report Memorandum by the Army Sanitary Commission on a "Report and Order of the Madras Government upon the Dry-eath System of Sewage in the Madras Presidency".
Arrangements proposed by the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India for investigating cholera epidemics
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p 1381. Arrangements for J M Cuningham and Dr Lewis to investigate cholera epidemics, including the possibilities of microscopic investigation, and investigations into Pettenkofer's theories on sub-surface soils.