pp 115-17. Communication from W H Colvill, Civil Surgeon at Baghdad, Turkish Arabia, regarding the upcoming International Sanitary Conference on the transmission of cholera and plague, the value of quarantine restrictions in preventing the spread of cholera, and the current arrangements in Persi...
Registration of sub-soil water levels to test Pettenkofer's theory of cholera
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pp 49-51. Government of Bengal request information as to whether they should continue with sub-soil water registration. Communication from the Government of India to the Presidency and Provincial Governments, ordering that registration be amended for a more extended use, and combined with informa...
Conduct of Dr De Renzy, Sanitary Commissioner with the Punjab, in publishing his Remarks on the Report of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India on the Cholera Epidemic of 1872 in Northern India
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pp 61-78. Government of the Punjab forward copy statement by A C C De Renzy regarding the circumstances surrounding the publication of his pamphlet, discussing in detail the disagreement between himself and J M Cuningham over the aetiology of cholera, and enclosing copy articles from The Lancet,...
Observations made regarding Professor Pettenkofer's theory on the origin and propagation of cholera
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pp 345-47. A De Renzy, Sanitary Commissioner with the Punjab, forwards register of the level of sub-soil water for 1870-74, and measurements taken at Gurjanwalla during the cholera epidemic of 1872, comparing water-level to cholera mortality. Plus comments by De Renzy on Pettenkofer's theory and ...
Establishment of quarantine in Cantonments in order to prevent the spread of epidemic disease
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pp 43-63. Government of India forward for information papers received from the Government of the Punjab on the subject of quarantine as a control against the spread of epidemic disease, including communications from: A C De Renzy, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of the Punjab; G S eatso...
Army Sanitary Commission memorandum on the eighth Annual Report of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India
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pp 65-85. Includes a particularly detailed discussion of Appendix C, Microscopical and Physiological Researches into the nature of the agent or agents producing Cholera.
Response of the Army Sanitary Commission to questions posed by the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India
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pp 111-24. Response to questions posed by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, regarding the utility of quarantine as a means of preventing the spread of cholera; a water-bourne aetiology of cholera; the use of disinfectants in military and civil hospitals; sanitati...
Report on the special enquiry which has been made regarding cholera in the Jubbulpore District [Jabalpur]
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pp 255-96. Copy of the special report by Surgeon Major S C Townsend, Sanitary Commissioner with the Central Provinces, including Appendix I. Correspondence between the Sanitary Commissioners with the Government of India and the Central Provinces regarding the enquiry; and Appendix II. Report of ...