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 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...
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.
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...