Adoption of revised scales of dietary, medical comforts and medicines for ships carrying Indian emigrants from Calcutta to British and Foreign Colonies west of the Cape of Good Hope
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pp 1155-64. Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India issues notification of the adoption of the revised scale [copy enclosed].
Revised scales of diet, medicines and medical comforts for emigrant vessels proposed by the Officiating Protector of Emigrants in substitution of the old scale under Section 63 of Act XIII of 1864
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pp 937-52. Communication from the Officiating Protector of Emigrants, Calcutta, with enclosures, reporting on the proposals made by Dr Bakewell, Health Officer of Shipping in Trinidad, and submitting proposed new dietary and medical scales. Includes tables showing the provisions for chips carryin...
Results of experiments made in Oudh to test Pettenkofer's theory regarding the origin and propagation of cholera
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pp 1063-74. Forwarding registers of observation for the month of June, showing distance of sub-soil water from surface of ground; rainfall; temperature of soil 6 feet below surface; wind; and number of reported cholera cases.
Measures adopted in the Lower Provinces for the collection and registration of mortuary statistics
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pp 955-99. Correspondence between the Government of Bengal and the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of Bengal regarding the new measures for recording and submitting mortuary statistics, including opinions of local magistrates and surgeons on the necessary measures and funds for implemen...
Discussions regarding the suggestions of the Army Sanitary Commission for the trial of certain experiments connected with cholera
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pp 1001-60. Comprising: Army Sanitary Commission, Instructions for conducting an enquiry into cholera in India. Copy proceedings thereon of the Madras Government regarding the recommendations, the proposed form of registers, reports to be drawn up by Medical Officers, the areas to be the focus o...
Comments on the measures to be adopted for an enquiry into cholera in India
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pp 111-14. Communication from J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, regarding opinions of the local Sanitary Commissioners on the means by which sanitary enquiries in special districts and localities may be carried out. Cuningham discusses the difficulties of accurate...
pp 115-19. Correspondence regarding the condition of the ravines above the Combermere Bridge bowlie; plus copy Proceedings of the Simla Board of Health, 30 Jan 1871.
Results of experiments made in the Hyderabad Assigned Districts to test Pettenkofer's theory regarding the origin and propagation of cholera
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pp 41-43. Diagram recording the water level in the well at Omrawuttee during the month of November 1870 [shown as a representation of Pettenkofer's apparatus], plus tables recording meteorological observations, and notes on incidences of fevers and cholera.