Compilation of data from the three Presidencies of India regarding the prevalence of cholera and the dates of its appearance among emigrants on board ship
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pp 825-26. Communication from J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, requesting that data be compiled in the enclosed form.
Measures to be adopted for testing Professor Max von Pettenkofer's theory regarding the origin and propagation of cholera
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pp 871-77. J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, requests Drs Cunningham and Lewis prepare a memorandum of Pettenkofer's theory of cholera aetiology and transmission, and proposes an investigation into its veracity. Copy of the memorandum enclosed, plus diagram of app...
Replies by the Army Sanitary Commission to questions concerning sanitary improvement in India stations, posed by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Kyd regarding the cultivation of the prickly pear and cochineal insect; plus recording meteorological and agricultural information
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No. 19, Letter from Lieutenant Coloneal Robert Kyd dated 08 Sep 1788. [pp 258-346] Kyd discusses the expedition of Thiery de Menonville to Guaxaca to retrieve samples of the prickly pear and cochineal insect. The letter contains extensive extracts from Nicolas-Joseph Thiery de Menonville, Traité...
Reports on the medical topography of the Shevaroy and Chundamungalam [Sendamangalam] hills
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pp 2715-2838. Communication from the Medical Board to the Governor in Council, discussing the medico-topographical surveys conducted in the hills, comparing them to Bangalore and the Nilgiris, and recommending that the surveys be discontinued. The Board forward the following: An anonymous articl...
Reports from the Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals, Hyderabad Subsidiary Force, and the Sanitary Commissioner, Central Provinces and Berar, touching on the several questions of sanitation
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pp 729-61. Reports in reply to the enquiry of the Secretary of State into the progress of measures for sanitation in India [see related descriptions].
Proposal to raise by local taxation the funds necessary for sanitary purposes in the chief towns of British Burmah
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pp 1467-72. Communications from J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, regarding the report into the cholera outbreak at Akyab, and the sanitary measures to be carried out in British Burma.Government of India request a full proposal on taxation necessary to implement s...
Arrangements for carrying out the orders of the Home Government in regard to the inquiry into cholera in India and the system of recording such cases
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pp 1367-73. Correspondence between the Governments of India and Madras, plus copy Memorandum by the Army Sanitary Commission on papers relating to cholera in the North-Western Provinces of India in 1867, and proposed enquiry into the causes of cholera generally in that country. Also contains extr...
Suggestions of the Army Sanitary Commission for the trial of certain experiments connected with Cholera
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pp 101-44. Government of Bengal to the Government of India, reporting that the Lieutenant-Governor cannot recommend any such experiments as proposed by the Army Sanitary Commission, and recommends awaiting results of experiments into the nature and causes of cholera. They enclose the following r...
S C Townsend, Report on the Cholera Epidemic of 1868 in the Central Provinces; plus correspondence
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pp 283-402. Copy report by Sanitary Commissioner S C Townsend. Section I, Origin and spread of the epidemic among the gangs of labourers employed on the Northern road. Section II, Spread of the epidemic among the general population. Section III, Review of the history of the epidemic, and conclus...
