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 ...
Changes in the existing arrangements of the constitution of the Sanitary Department with the Government of India
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pp 805-07. Minute by J Strachey regarding the necessity of appointing a Medical Officer to the position of Sanitary Commissioner, and the abolition of the position of Secretary to the Sanitary Commissioner in each of the Presidencies.
Sanitary arrangements for the Durbar to be held at Agra during the next cold season
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pp 809-14. Correspondence and reports forwarded to J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, comprising: Letter by F J Mouat, Inspector General of Jail, Lower Provinces, regarding the sanitary arrangements for the forthcoming Durbar and the provisions to be made against ...
Proposed legislation to give the necessary power to Local Officers to enforce sanitary measures in the villages and smaller towns in Oudh
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pp 815-17. Request by the Chief Commissioner of Oudh that the local Municpal Act be extended to provide powers to enforce local sanitary arrangements. Response from the Government of India declining the request on the grounds that the co-operation of the local population is paramount to the succe...
Necessity for special arrangements being made for the accomodation of patients suffering from contagious diseases who may have occasion to be moved by rail
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pp 819-24. Public Works Department forward copy letter from the Madras Government regarding the necessity of special arrangements for patients suffering from contagious diseases who have occasion to be moved by rail, including examples of diptheria patients tavelling by rail. With correspondence ...
Compilation of data from the three Presidencies of India regarding the prevalence of cholera and the dates of its appearance among emigrants on board ship
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pp 825-26. Communication from J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, requesting that data be compiled in the enclosed form.