Measures for improving the sanitary condition of Simla
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pp 463-64. Government of India resolution establishing a committee to enquire into the best means of improving the water supply at Simla, as a response to the recent cholera epidemic.
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 67-69. Secretary of State for India forwards three letters from Captain F Warren, Royal Navy, proposing a scheme for the manufacture and transport of ice in India, and discussing his alleged arrangements with the Government of Spain. Plus memorandum thereon by the Army Sanitary Commission.
pp 201-24. Comprising: Communication from William Thom, Officiating Surgoen General, Indian Medical Department, Bombay. Remarks upon the Sind boil by Surgeon Keelan, 2nd Belooch Regiment, Native Infantry. Report on the Sind Sore by Surgeon J A Howell, 30th Native Infantry. Annual Report on the S...
Cultivation of sunflowers in the Dutch East Indies
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pp 77-78. British Minister at the Hague forwards a translation of a report on the cultivation of sunflowers in several of the Residencies in Java and Madura, for the purposes of neutralizing marshy exhalations.