pp 03-04. Report by J Fairweather, Sanitary Commissioner with the Punjab, on an outbreak of cholera at Delhi. Provides daily admission and death statistics for 29 Nov-07 Dec 1871, and speculates on the cause and transmission of the cholera.
pp 265-75. Comments of the Army Sanitary Commission, the Cawnpore Municipal Committee and Colonel Alexander Fraser, Officiating Chief Engineer, North-Western Provinces, on the submitted plans for improving drainage and sanitation in Cawnpore. Includes detailed description of the prevailing state ...
p 39. J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, reports on the unsuitability of Jubbulpore [Jabalpur] for a fully water-based sewage system, and recommends that Umballa be used as a test-case.
Prevention of the introduction of contagious diseases into Netherlands India
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pp 25-27. Copy of a translated decree issued by the Governor General of Netherlands India, regarding measures to be adopted for the prevention of the introduction of contagious diseases. Ordered that the decree be reprinted in the Gazette of India.
Over-crowding of certain passenger steamers on the Malabar Coast
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pp 155-56. Memorandum by W S Halsey, Commissioner of Cotton and Commerce with the Government of India, reporting on a journey he undertook on the steamer Carnac: on the dangerous overcrowding, and the admission by the Captain that unreported overcrowding was a regular occurance; reporting allegat...