Cultivation of sunflower for the purpose of neutralizing the injurious effect of marshy exhalations
Scope & Content:
pp 1399-1400. Communication from C T Buckland, Officiating Commissioner of Burdwan, forwarding a cutting from the Pall Mall Gazette regarding an experiment conducted in the Netherlands to reduce cases of intermittent fever by planting sunflowers; plus copy letter from the Superintendent of the Be...
Annual Report on the vital statistics and sanitary condition of the Central Provinces for the year 1868; plus Sanitary Report for the City of Lucknow
Scope & Content:
pp 1403-45. Copies of the two reports; plus communication from the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, delaying his comments upon the reports until annual reports and statistics from Sanitary Commissioners with all the Local Governments and Administrations have been received.
pp 1447-49. Report on the outbreak, plus correspondence and resolutions ordering that a committee be established to invesigate measures for sanitary and conservancy improvements.
Causes of sickness and mortality in emigrant ships
Scope & Content:
pp 1451-60. Comprises Extracts from Report of Dr Bakewell, Health Officer of Shipping, on the causes of the Sickness and Mortality in Cooly Ships; plus comments thereon by T W C Murdoch of the Emigration Board.
pp 1253-56. Report by J Sutherland, Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals, Bengal, on the supposed causes of malarial fever, and the importance of sanitary improvements to address them.
Experiment made by the Darjeeling Municipality of Mr Hickey's plan of conservancy by carbonization
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pp 1311-19. Report of the Sub-Committee on Hickey's process. Hickey informs the Government of India that experiments are to be made with the charcoal residue as a deodorizer instead of dry-earth.