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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].
Comments on the measures to be adopted for an enquiry into cholera in India
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pp 111-14. Communication from J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, regarding opinions of the local Sanitary Commissioners on the means by which sanitary enquiries in special districts and localities may be carried out. Cuningham discusses the difficulties of accurate...
Establishment of quarantine in Cantonments in order to prevent the spread of epidemic disease
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pp 43-63. Government of India forward for information papers received from the Government of the Punjab on the subject of quarantine as a control against the spread of epidemic disease, including communications from: A C De Renzy, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of the Punjab; G S eatso...
Observations of the Army Sanitary Commission on the Bengal Sanitary Reports for 1872
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pp 09-16. Correspondence between Surgeon Major J Pilcher, Officiating Sanitary Commissioner for Bengal, and the Government of Bengal, regarding the remarks of the Army Sanitary Commission.
Investigations into the etiology of malaria and kala-azar; plus communication regarding treatment for beri-beri
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pp 703-14. Correspondence regarding the deputation of Captain S P James and Lieutenant S R Christophers to study kala-azar and malaria respectively; plus report by John Haggard regarding the discovery in Noumea that watercress has been accidentally discovered to be "an almost certain cure" for be...
Army Sanitary Commission remarks on various reports
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pp 301-14. Comprising: Remarks on the Report of the Sanitary Commissioner for Madras, 1872. Remarks on the Report of the Sanitary Commissioner for the Central Provinces, 1872. Remarks on the Report of the Chemical Analyser to the Government of Bombay for 1872-73.
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...