Alleged dissemination of cholera by pilgrims returning from the Hurdwar [Haridwār] fair in March and April 1879
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pp 411-15. Memorandum by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, regarding reports that cholera had been spread by pilgrims travelling to and from Hurdwar. Cuningham makes recommendations for an investigation to be carried out by local medical officers. Plus comments th...
Proposed introduction into schools of elementary instruction in sanitary matters, and diffusion among the masses of a knowledge of simple sanitary rules
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pp 871-922. Responses to three suggestions made by the Army Sanitary Commission: 1) as to the owners of villages being held responsible for the sanitary condition; 2) as to the issue of short and explicit rules and recommendations by the Sanitary Commission for the guidance of the people; 3) as ...
Memorandum of the Army Sanitary Commission on the Report of the Sanitary Commissioner for Madras for 1877
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pp 813-33. Includes discussion of the famine in Madras, and D D Cunningham's paper On certain effects of starvation on vegetable and animal tissues (1877).
Memorandum by the Army Sanitary Commission on Volumes III and IV of Dr Bryden's reports on the statistical history of the European Army in India and of the Native Army and Jail population in Bengal
Report by Assistant Surgeon Abdur Ruzzack [Abdur Razzack] on the sanitary condition of pilgrims at Mecca
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pp 469-534. Report submitted by Abur Razzack detailing his journey from Bombay to Mecca as a pilgrim undertaking the Hadj, plus correspondence thereon received from the Foreign Office, the Under Secretary of State for India; a report by Dr E Dickson, British Delegate to the Board of Health at Co...