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Memorandum by Lieutenant-Colonel Bannerman regarding the possible introduction of sleeping sickness into India
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pp 1317-23. Copy of Bannerman's report and its recommendations are forwarded to Presidency Governments in India and Port Health Officers. Resolution that the Portuguese Government should be informed of the actions taken in Bombay ports, and asked whether similar action might be taken at Marmagao.
Reports from various superintendents of vaccination in the hill districts of Bengal concerning the efficacy of the smallpox vaccine
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No. 19. Communication from the Bengal Medical Board to the Government of India, requesting that they be sent lymph and crusts taken from children vaccinated with fresh lymph from England during the months October - December. Enclosing the following reports on vaccination: Dr Stewart, Superintend...
Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India directed to proceed to the Cantonments and Camps where cholera is now prevalent, with a view to making investigations
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pp 1065-66. To proceed to Saugor, Jubbulpore, Allahabad, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Fyzabad, Agra and Morar.
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
Results of experiments made in the Hyderabad Assigned Districts to test Pettenkofer's theory regarding the origin and propagation of cholera
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pp 41-43. Diagram recording the water level in the well at Omrawuttee during the month of November 1870 [shown as a representation of Pettenkofer's apparatus], plus tables recording meteorological observations, and notes on incidences of fevers and cholera.
Results of experiments made in the Hyderabad Assigned Districts to test Pettenkofer's theory regarding the origin and propagation of cholera
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pp 97-98. Diagram recording the water level in the well at Omrawuttee during the month of December 1870 [shown as a representation of Pettenkofer's apparatus], plus tables recording meteorological observations, and notes on incidences of fevers and cholera.
Form of return for results of experiments conducted regarding Pettenkofer's theory on the origin and propagation of cholera
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p 101. Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India comments on the returns sent by the Hyderabad Assigned Districts, and remarks that the returns were received in the form of a diagram, and not the prescribed register.
