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Preparation at stated periods of reports on the nature and extent of all works executed for the removal of disease among troops and civil populations throughout India
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pp 407-14. Communication by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, commenting on the nature of reports submitted by local Sanitary Commissioners; the importance of obtaining accurate information as regards the sanitary condition of Military stations; methods of data co...
Explanation on the points noticed by the Government of India in the Oudh Sanitary Report for 1875 and the report on vaccination for 1875-76
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pp 37-40. Comments by Surgeon Major A Garden, Sanitary Commissioner, Oudh, including comparative statement showing the number of persons primarily vaccinated and the number of those persons who were successfully vaccinated in the Province of Oudh in each of the under-mentioned years.
Reports on the great mortality from fever in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, and the measures taken to address it
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pp 167-213. Government of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh forward reports [pp 169-198] received from local administrations and medical officers throughout the region regarding the morbidity and mortality from malarial fevers, and the use and distribution of quinine and cinchona febrifuge. ...
Proposal to place Surgeon Major Ronald Ross on special duty to investigate the truth of Dr Patrick Manson's theory of the transmission of the infection of malaria by means of the mosquito
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pp 259-63. Communication from the Government of Madras, forwarding copy letter from Ross requesting to be placed on special duty, plus orders thereon from the Government of India.
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...
This plan is part of IOR/P/437/72. It portrays the British Residency at Bushire [Bushehr]. Annotations indicate the function of each room, and the parts of the Residency raised above the basement are shaded in red. Drawn by Lieutenant Oliver St John.
Report on the working of the Lock Hospitals in the Bengal Presidency for the year 1872
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pp 85-114. Report by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, including: Statement A, Showing the area over which the rules for the prevention of venereal disease have been in force, and the details of expenditure on Lock Hospitals... for 1872; Statement B, Showing the ...
