Difference of opinion between the Collector of Malabar and the Civil Surgeon of Calicut as to the classification of deaths during 1875-1876
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p. 235. Regarding a disease which the Collector identified as cholera, but which the Civil Surgeon recorded under the heading 'bowel complaints' in the annual reports. Government of India express their view that Madras had suffered from a particularly bad cholera epidemic that year.
Improvements of the Boree Bunder Infantry Lines, Bombay
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pp 179-84. Correspondence between the Governments of India and Bombay, plus report by J Lumsdaine, Sanitary Commissioner for Bombay. Includes maps and diagrams of the lines and sanitation features on page 182.
Improvement of the sanitary state of villages around cantonments
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pp 185-86. Request from Major-General F Roberts, Quarter Master General, that Provincial Sanitary Commissioners acquaint themselves with villages in the neighbourhood of 30 miles of military cantonments, to assess sanitation and the possibility of disease transported by the movement of labour.
Analysis of potable waters in the Madras and Bengal Presidencies
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pp 189-217. Army Sanitary Commission memorandums on the reports on water analysis in the Madras and Bengal Presidencies; plus correspondence thereon, including comments by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, and G S Beatson, Principal Medical Officer of the British ...
Reports on the purity of drinking water supplied to the Native passenger ships at Bombay
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pp 223-25. Correspondence regarding the supply of Bombay shipping with pure water from the Mazagon Bunder, plus reports by the Municipal Commissioner, Bombay, and the Secretary of the Bombay Port Trust.
Reports on the Lock Hospitals in the North-Western Provinces for the year 1875
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pp 555-695. Summary report by C Planck, Sanitary Commissioner with the North-Western Provinces, plus full reports on the operation of Lock Hospitals at Bareilly, Meerut, Agra, Cawnpore [Kānpur], Allahabad, Benares [Vārānasi], Ranikhet, Naini Tal, Chakrata, Roorkee, Moradabad, Shahjahanpur, Muttra...