pp 241-43. Government of Bombay forward report by the Municipal Commissioner regarding the analyses of potable waters in Bombay, carried out on the drinking water wells believed to have been the source of the 1870 cholera epidemic. Encloses copy of Dr L B Lyon's analysis [Chemical Analyser, Bombay].
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...
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...
Imposition of quarantine on arrivals from the Persian Gulf
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pp 541-44. Copy telegrams received from Colonel Nixon, Consul-General in Baghdad; and Messrs Gray, Dawes and Company, Agents, British India Steam Navigation Company, regarding the outbreak of plague in Mesopotamia [Iraq], the imposition of quarantine, and competition in shipping with the Khedive'...
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 ...
Precautions taken due to apparent plague outbreak in Mecca
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pp 371-72. Government of India forward to the Government of the Punjab copy extracts from the Aden News Report, plus translated letter from Sheikh Esaw Ben Khuleefa, Chief of Bahrain, advising that as a precaution against plague transmission, pilgrims will be prevented from entering Mecca.
Remarks on sanitation in Oudh, and the mortality from cholera and fever
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pp 149-59. Comprising: Remarks of the Army Sanitary Commission on the Sanitary Report for the Province of Oude [Oudh], 1872. Remarks of the Army Sanitary Commission on the Sanitary Report for the Province of Oude [Oudh], 1873. Remarks by the Army Sanitary Commission on the sanitary condition of ...