Proposals with the view of ensuring the more correct registration of vital statistics in Berar
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pp 11-22. Correspondence between the Commissioner, Assistant Residents, and Surgeon Generals of the Hyderabad Assigned Provinces and Berar; plus remarks by R T Abbott, Sanitary Commissioner with the Hyderabad Assigned Districts, enclosing copy Rules for the better registration of vital statistics...
Excessive mortality from bowel complaints in Berar
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pp 23-42. Comprising: Report by J Lumsdaine, Bombay Sanitary Commissioner, including statement showing mortality from bowel complaints for 1866-72 in Bombay Presidency Registration Districts, plus comparative prevalence of bowel complaints in the registration districts according to different sea...
pp 201-24. Comprising: Communication from William Thom, Officiating Surgoen General, Indian Medical Department, Bombay. Remarks upon the Sind boil by Surgeon Keelan, 2nd Belooch Regiment, Native Infantry. Report on the Sind Sore by Surgeon J A Howell, 30th Native Infantry. Annual Report on the S...
Dry-earth system of conservancy as carried out in the [Bengal] Presidency Jail
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pp 231-35. Report of the system implemented by Dr Lynch at the Bengal Jail, by S C Mackenzie, Superintendent. Includes illustration of the "Pug Mill" in use, as proposed by Dr S C Mackenzie [page 233].
pp 375-79. Colonel J P Nixon [John Pigott], Her Majesty's Consul General, Baghdad, forwards copy telegrams regarding the imposition of quarantine in Baghdad as a result of an outbreak of plague, and declaring Bussorah [Al-Basrah] to be infected. Telegrams received from: Syud Mahomed Redif, Govern...
Captain Warren's scheme for the manufacture and supply of ice in India
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pp 105-37. Correspondence between the Government of India and the Presidency and Provincial administrations regarding Captain Warren's proposal, discussing the requirements for ice in industry and medical practice, and the practicalities and economics of Warren's scheme as regards manufacture an...