Letters to Government from Lieutenant Colonel Robert Kyd reporting on various botanical subjects
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Bengal Public Proceedings, 2nd July 1790: [pp 350-355] Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Robert Kyd to the Secretary to Government, dated Calcutta 25th June 1790, regarding the cultivation of Mawah and Teak, and reporting that there were upwards of one thousand plants of Spanish American Napaul [...
Report of the Smallpox Committee on vaccine operations throughout India, and orders thereon
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No. 32. Communication from the Government of India to the Government of Bengal regarding the report of the Smallpox Committee, which recommended legislating against the practice of inoculation. Government of India identified the poor extent of vaccination throughout Bengal, and advise that vacci...
Papers from Dr William Roxburgh regarding a new species of Nerium Indigo
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Madras Public Consultations, 14 September 1790: [pp 2334-2336] Letter from Dr William Roxburgh to Major General Medows, dated 10th July 1790, transmitting papers containing a description and drawing of a tree, the leaves of which yields a very beautiful indigo, for forwarding along with a samp...
Reports on the progress in the sanitary improvement made in the Madras Presidency
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pp 891-1038. Government of Fort St George forward Proceedings reviewing the reports of the Sanitary Commissioner on the progress made in the sanitary improvement of the Madras Presidency. Consists of extensive reports, correspondence and minutes: pp 891-904. Proceedings p 905. Appendix A. Est...
Recommendations of the Army Sanitary Commission for conducting an enquiry into cholera in India
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pp 705-06. Letter from W M Muir, Inspector General of Hospitals to HM British Forces, to the Government of India, regarding the circulation of printed instructions for conducting researches into cholera, as prepared by the Army Sanitary Commission. Letter from J Murray, Inspector General of Hospi...
Observations made regarding Professor Pettenkofer's theory on the origin and propagation of cholera
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pp 345-47. A De Renzy, Sanitary Commissioner with the Punjab, forwards register of the level of sub-soil water for 1870-74, and measurements taken at Gurjanwalla during the cholera epidemic of 1872, comparing water-level to cholera mortality. Plus comments by De Renzy on Pettenkofer's theory and ...
Remarks on the Report of the Sanitary Commissioner for Bengal for the year 1873
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pp 85-93. Government of Bengal forward Resolution by the Lieutenant-Governor regarding the Annual Report for the year 1873, and the report on the epidemic fever in Burdwan and Beerbhoom. Plus comments thereon by the Government of India.
Remarks of the Army Sanitary Commission on the improvement of public health in Calcutta
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p 249. Commission remarks favourably on the reduction in mortality in Calcutta and on the manner in which sanitary reforms have been carried out. Comments on the relationship between the sanitary reforms and the decline in cholera cases, but states that it is too early to draw conclusions.