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...
Study at Netley of the principles of water analysis
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pp 259-65. Secretary of State for India forwards for the information of the Government of Bombay correspondence with the War Office regarding the study of water analysis at the Army Medical School at Netley.
Quarantine arrangements in force at the Kohala bridge on the Jhelum, Punjab
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pp 269-73. Correspondence, plus copy Proceedings of a committee assembled at the Assistant Commissioner's kutcherry on Monday the 15th May 1876 to consider whether the quarantine at present established along the line of the Jhelum should be abolished or maintained, and if maintained, what modific...
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.