Analysis of potable waters in the Bengal Presidency
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pp 07-14. Comprising: Memorandum by the Army Sanitary Commission on a despatch of the Government of India, dated 5th April, No. 4 of 1872 (Sanitary), on the subject of the analysis of potable water in India. Memorandum of the Army Sanitary Commission, on the eighth Report on the analysis of pota...
Bills of Health and Quarantine Rules for ships arriving in Aden
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pp 127-29. Letter from the Government of Bombay to the Secretary of State for India, regardng the granting of Bills of Health to ships arriving at Aden from infected ports, without having received Bills of Health from the ports of departures and ports touched at en route; and the proposed establi...
Mortality from cholera and other diseases in the town of Calcutta
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pp 89-91. Communication from J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, regarding mortality in Calcutta during the period 1841-1860 and 1865-1870. Discusses the impact of sanitary reforms, and Surgeon H M Macpherson's booklet On the mortality of Calcutta during the 20 year...
Review of the Local Sanitary Commissioner reports for 1869
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pp 97-126. Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India reviews the reports submitted by local Sanitary Commissioners in Berar, the Punjab, Oudh, Burmah, Bengal, the North-Western Provinces, and the Central Provinces. Includes discussion of: I. Vital Statistics; II. The history of each of t...
Steamers from Indian Ports to the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf
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pp 131-36. Correspondence regarding the application of Act XII of 1870 (the Native Passenger Ships Act) to steamers sailing to ports in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, including discussion of pilgrim ships.
Future of the Bombay Lock Hospital and the working of the Contagious Diseases Act in Bombay
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pp 229-30. Extracts from the Proceedings of the Home Department, Government of India, regarding the cost of maintaining the Bombay Lock Hospital and enforcing the Contagious Diseases Act. Resolution that immediate arrangements be made "for winding up all affairs connected with the... Act in Bombay".