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Rules for determining the presence of organic matter in water
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pp 1061-63. Government of Madras forward communication from Surgeon-Major J L Ranking, Sanitary Commissioner, regarding rules to be adopted regarding tests for the analysis of potable waters. Discusses the methods proposed by Ranking, and those of Messrs Wanklyn and Chapman, championed by Dr Macn...
Analyses of the potable waters in the Madras Presidency
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pp 01-13. Correspondence, enclosing: Memorandum by the Army Sanitary Commission on analyses of Indian watersNotes by Dr R A Smith, with reference to the analytic examination of waters in Northern India, described in Dr Macnamara's Report, - dated 1st February 1869
Medical Board suggests measures to remove and burn or bury the immense mass of dead and decaying vegetable matter lying in all directions about Madras, which might prove deleterious to health
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Dead and decaying matter exhibiting a powerful and hourly increasing odour, feared to be deleterious to health.
Regarding the adoption of certain measures to prevent the introduction of epidemic cholera into ports on the Red Sea, the coast of Arabia and the Persian Gulf, by vessels proceeding from India
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pp 145-74. Correspondence regarding measures implemented at the suggestion of the Turkish Board of Health and Dr Dickson, British Delegate to the Board. Includes copy certificate of health to be issued to ships, plus correspondence and extracts of the Madras Proceedings relating to the treatment ...
Suggestions on the introduction of such useful trees, shrubs and other plants as are deemed the most likely to yield sustenance to the poorer classes of Natives of these Provinces during times of scarcity
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Communication from William Roxburgh, including meteorological observations.
Dr Gibson shows Polish wheat from Edinburgh to growers of wheat in the Joonese District who request a sample of it.
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Letter dated 27 September 1838 from Alexander Gibson, Superintendent of Botanical Garden at Dapuri, explaining the differences discovered between the two varieties of wheat and requesting that supplies be conveyed for free. Letter dated 4 October 1838 from the Acting Secretary to Government gran...