pp 695-705. Government of the Punjab submit information on sanitary regulations enforced in the region, and enclose the following reports by A C DeRenzy, Sanitary Commissioner: Preface to Sanitary Rules for Towns and Villages. Declares the basic principles of public health, sanitation and conser...
Cultivation of sunflower for the purpose of neutralizing the injurious effect of marshy exhalations
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pp 1399-1400. Communication from C T Buckland, Officiating Commissioner of Burdwan, forwarding a cutting from the Pall Mall Gazette regarding an experiment conducted in the Netherlands to reduce cases of intermittent fever by planting sunflowers; plus copy letter from the Superintendent of the Be...
pp 1253-56. Report by J Sutherland, Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals, Bengal, on the supposed causes of malarial fever, and the importance of sanitary improvements to address them.
pp 139-66. Reports and correspondence received from Medical Officers throughout Oudh remarking on the prevalence of fever, providing observations on the fever aetiology; the sanitary condition of towns and cities; measures taken to combat the fever; and meteorological, morbidity and mortality sta...
pp 353-57. Correspondence and reports regarding the aetiology of the "Delhi boil", and the possible positive or negative effects of trees and vegetation in relation to the affliction, and to malaria. Featuring report by J R Miller, Deputy Inspector General of the Indian Medical Dept., Sind Distri...
Review of the Local Sanitary Commissioner reports for 1869
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pp 97-126. Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India reviews the reports submitted by local Sanitary Commissioners in Berar, the Punjab, Oudh, Burmah, Bengal, the North-Western Provinces, and the Central Provinces. Includes discussion of: I. Vital Statistics; II. The history of each of t...
pp 261-64. Memorandum by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, regarding Dr Sutherland's suggestions for the arrest and prevention of endemic diseases in Bengal. Discusses the aetiology and transmission of malarious fevers, and whether improved sanitation and drainage...