Proposed establishment of quarantine stations on the Red Sea
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pp 1223-51. Correspondence, plus: Report of the Ottoman Sanitary Commission of the Hejaz on their examination of the Ports of the Red Sea [Oct 1867] Instructions to Officers appointed to carry out the provisions of Act XXI. of 1858 as far as relates to the conveyance of Native passengers to the ...
Comments on the cultivation of sunflowers to neutralize the injurious effects of marshy exhalations
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p 1505. Communication from J Murray, Inspector General of Hospitals, Indian Medical Department, remarking on the practice of plantating shrubs and trees in areas known to be malarial, remarking that the present state of scientific knowledge would not admit a large-scale experiment being tried.
pp 1477-88. Correspondence, plus statistics showing: number of ships and emigrants despatched to Mauritius from Calcutta, 1850-69; prevalence of cholera in emigrant ships sailing from Calcutta from 1850-69; number of ships and emigrants despatched to the West Indies from 1861-69; prevalence of ...
Question of the more effectual disposal of the Calcutta night-soil
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pp 1507-10. Correspondence regarding the adoption of Hickey's carbonization or dry-sistillation system of conservancy; plus copy minutes of the Drainage, Water-Supply and Conservancy Committees, Bengal, held Oct 1869.
Report on the vital statistics in the Central Provinces for 1868; plus adoption of uniform returns for vital and sanitary statistics
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pp 01-26. Contains the report of the Sanitary Commissioner, Central Provinces and Berar; plus correspondence between J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, and the Government of India, regarding the need to prepare uniform statistical returns.
Comments by the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India on the dry-earth system of sewage
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p 803. Comments by J M Cunningham on the memorandum of the Army Sanitary Commission on the dry-earth sewage system, recommending that Jubbulpore be selected as a location to test improvements, and calling for returns from Military stations such as Luknow, Allahabad, Meerut and Jubbulpore to show ...