Sanitary Regulations for the prevention of cholera among pilgrims proceeding to the Red Sea
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pp 05-12. Communication from the Chief Commissioner of British Burma stating that no Sanitary Regulations have been established for the prevention of cholera among pilgrims proceeding to the Red Sea, and enclosing copy letter from J F W Niebuhr, Consul for Prussia, Oldenburg and Bremen regarding ...
Duties to be discharged by the Sanitary Commissioners with the Local Governments and Administrations
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pp 11-64. Resolution prescribing the duties to be discharged by the Sanitary Commissioners with the Local Governments and Administrations in the Bengal Presidency, and the relations between those Officers and the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India; plus connected correspondence.
Comments on the cultivation of sunflowers to neutralize the injurious effects of marshy exhalations
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p 1505. Communication from J Murray, Inspector General of Hospitals, Indian Medical Department, remarking on the practice of plantating shrubs and trees in areas known to be malarial, remarking that the present state of scientific knowledge would not admit a large-scale experiment being tried.
Cultivation of sunflower for the purpose of neutralizing the injurious effect of marshy exhalations
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pp 1399-1400. Communication from C T Buckland, Officiating Commissioner of Burdwan, forwarding a cutting from the Pall Mall Gazette regarding an experiment conducted in the Netherlands to reduce cases of intermittent fever by planting sunflowers; plus copy letter from the Superintendent of the Be...
Report on the outbreak of cholera in Umritsur [Amritsar] in 1869, plus appendices
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pp 707-812. Report of the Committee appointed to enquire into the circumstances and history of the late outbreak of cholera in the City of Umritsur [Amritsar], plus appendices: A. Resolution of this Government, dated 14th Sep 1869, appointing the Committee. B. Report by Major F M Birch, Deputy C...
Army Sanitary Commission memorandum on the subject of recording mortuary statistics in India
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pp 1143-46. Memorandum by the Army Sanitary Commission in reply to the Government of India's resolution regarding the recording and collecting of mortuary statistics in India; plus copy letter from the Registrar General to the Army Sanitary Commission regarding methods for registering births, mar...
Introduction of the Contagious Diseases Act in to certain places in Bengal and Berar
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pp 867-75. Government of Bengal forward, with comments, copy Minute by the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal on the introduction of Act XIV of 1868 into Bengal and Berar. Plus comments thereon by the Government of India.
Captain Warren's scheme for the manufacture and supply of ice in India
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pp 105-37. Correspondence between the Government of India and the Presidency and Provincial administrations regarding Captain Warren's proposal, discussing the requirements for ice in industry and medical practice, and the practicalities and economics of Warren's scheme as regards manufacture an...