Reports on the progress in the sanitary improvement made in the Madras Presidency
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pp 891-1038. Government of Fort St George forward Proceedings reviewing the reports of the Sanitary Commissioner on the progress made in the sanitary improvement of the Madras Presidency. Consists of extensive reports, correspondence and minutes: pp 891-904. Proceedings p 905. Appendix A. Est...
Report on the drainage and conservancy of Calcutta by David B Smith, Sanitary Commissioner for Bengal
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pp 1075-1201. Extensive report, covering the history of sanitation projects in Calcutta, proposed water-carriage and dry-earth sewage systems, and cholera epidemics. Summary, pp 1187-1200.
pp 1207-19. Correspondence, plus Memorandum on the introduction of the trench system for the disposal of ordure in the Fyzabad Cantonment; and Memorandum by the Cantonment Magistrate on Dr Tulloch's report on the trench system.
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 ...