pp 67-69. Secretary of State for India forwards three letters from Captain F Warren, Royal Navy, proposing a scheme for the manufacture and transport of ice in India, and discussing his alleged arrangements with the Government of Spain. Plus memorandum thereon by the Army Sanitary Commission.
Observations by the Army Sanitary Commission on the replies of Officers and Departments to the remarks of the Commission on the Report of the Sanitary Commissioner for Bombay for 1871
Proposed extension to the Cantonment of Jutogh of the Contagious Diseases Act
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pp 327-30. Correspondence regarding the necessity of extending the act to Jutogh, including communication from Major C H Le Mesurier, Commanding at Jutogh, regarding the ad hoc arrangements for regulating prostitution.
pp 525-30. Report by H E Jacomb, Acting Municipal Commissioner at Bombay, plus comments by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, regarding sewage at Bombay, sanitary policy, and the instigation of a sewer system.
Imposition of quarantine on arrivals from the Persian Gulf
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pp 541-44. Copy telegrams received from Colonel Nixon, Consul-General in Baghdad; and Messrs Gray, Dawes and Company, Agents, British India Steam Navigation Company, regarding the outbreak of plague in Mesopotamia [Iraq], the imposition of quarantine, and competition in shipping with the Khedive'...