pp 85-90. Two letters received by the Secretary of State for India from Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890), former Chief Executive Officer of the First General Board of Health, England.
Adoption of effective sanitary measures at Resht [Rasht, Iran] with a view to preventing the plague from re-appearing or spreading in that Province
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pp 285-88. Correspondence between W Taylour Thomson, Her Majesty's Minister at Tehran; H A Churchill, Consul at Resht; and the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, regarding sanitary measures to be carried out to prevent the spread of plague, including instructions as to burying the dead.
Report by the Sanitary Commissioner with the North-Western Provinces and Oudh on the drainage and conservancy of Cawnpore [Kānpur]
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pp 407-13. Report by C Planck, Sanitary Commissioner, including sketch of Cawnpore drainage system [p 409], plus comments thereon by the Government of India.
Deputation of a Muslim doctor to Mecca to report on the sanitary condition of that place during the pilgrimage
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pp 767-72. Correspondence between the Foreign Office, the Government of India, and the Indian Medical Department, discussing arrangements and the details to be reported. Assistant Surgeon Abdoor Razzack [Abdur-Razzack], previously stationed at the Mayo Hospital, Calcutta, is selected.
pp 479-80. Extract of Army Sanitary Commission memorandum regarding the medical history of the Bombay Native Army for 1876, with a focus on sanitation and local prison conditions.
Report by Assistant Surgeon Abdur Ruzzack [Abdur Razzack] on the sanitary condition of pilgrims at Mecca
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pp 469-534. Report submitted by Abur Razzack detailing his journey from Bombay to Mecca as a pilgrim undertaking the Hadj, plus correspondence thereon received from the Foreign Office, the Under Secretary of State for India; a report by Dr E Dickson, British Delegate to the Board of Health at Co...
Proposed introduction into schools of elementary instruction in sanitary matters, and diffusion among the masses of a knowledge of simple sanitary rules
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pp 871-922. Responses to three suggestions made by the Army Sanitary Commission: 1) as to the owners of villages being held responsible for the sanitary condition; 2) as to the issue of short and explicit rules and recommendations by the Sanitary Commission for the guidance of the people; 3) as ...
Absence of any means in the Madras Presidency for carrying out a bacteriological examination of water obtained from suspected polluted sources
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pp 53-54. Communication to the Home Department, enclosing an extract from a report of the Sanitary Board on the outbreak of cholera at the Bangalore Hill Station.
