Prevalence of cholera in the Chudderghât Bazaar, and the measures adopted to check its progress
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pp 555-61. Reports forwarded by Captain W Tweedie, Officiating First Assistant Resident, Hyderabad, regarding the cholera outbreak and measures to check its progress, including graph charting the number of cholera cases and mortality [p 558].
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...
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...
Monthly reports on the state of Public Health in India to be sent to Dr Dickson, British Delegate to the Board of Health at Constantinople
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pp 707-09. Correspondence, including letter from Henry Elliot to the Earl of Clarendon, informing him that the sanitary establishments in the Hedjaz and Jewen are now organised on a permanent footing; plus letter from Dr Dickson to Elliot providing details of the sanitary establishments.
Sanitary Reports on Bareilly and on certain Districts in the Meerut Division
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pp 563-675. R Simson, Secretary to the Government of the North-Western Provinces, forwards the following: Instructions circulated for the sanitation and conservancy of villages pp 564-66. Report upon the sanitary state of the city of Bareilly and the public institutions in its neighbourhood, by ...
Report on the drainage and conservancy of Calcutta by David B Smith, Sanitary Commissioner for Bengal
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pp 1075-1201. Extensive report, covering the history of sanitation projects in Calcutta, proposed water-carriage and dry-earth sewage systems, and cholera epidemics. Summary, pp 1187-1200.