IOR/P/434/44 Mar 1869 nos 15-52

pp 59-420. Extensive collection of reports, correspondence and statistics, comprising:

pp 59-61 Secretary of State for India requests information on the progress made towards:

• implementation of the "Suggestions in regards to Sanitary Works required for improving Indian Stations" (1864)
• arrangements for improving sanitary provisions as laid out in the regulations issued by Lord Herbert (1859)
• removing causes of disease in barracks and cantonments
• Medical Sanitary Inspector supervision to improve health and cleanliness in towns and villages
• proposed unified system of death registration
• what benefit may accrue from sending engineers to England to study all aspects of sanitation and conservancy

pp 61-64. Response from Lieutenant-Colonel G B Malleson, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of Bengal [given as Government of India] regarding the above mentioned questions, discussing the monthly sanitary reports; calling attention to Dr Bryden's statistical tables of sickness and mortality for European troops, Native troops and prisoners in the Bengal Presidency for 1859-67; and enclosing: cantonment rules and regulations; rules for the prevention of venereal disease and the establishment of lock hospitals; rules for death registration.

pp 65-77. Report from J Strachey, President of the Sanitary Commission for Bengal, regarding the Sanitary Administration of Military Cantonments.

pp 67-114. Communication from the Committee appointed for Framing Rules to be pased under section 19 of Act XII of 1864, submitting: draft rules on the prevention of venereal disease, regulation of prostitution and the establishment of Lock Hospitals, including draft schedules, registration forms and medical certificates, plus information on the duties of Medical Officers, Native Doctors, and the Matron or Dhale of Lock Hospitals; rules and regulations for Military Cantonments, rich in detail regarding the duties of the Cantonment Magistrate.

pp 115-16. W M Muir, Inspector General of Hospitals, to the Military Department, regarding the implementation of Herbert's regulations and reports issued thereon.

pp 119-24. Communication by C Grant, Officiating Secretary to the Chief Commissioner, Central Provinces, regarding the Secretary of State's enquiry, and reports by Dr Townsend, Sanitary Commissioner, regarding progress made in the Central Provinces and his scheme for the appointment of Health Officers to each district.

pp 125-227. Communication by R Simson, Secretary to the Government of the North-Western Provinces, regarding the enquiry and enclosing several district and divisional reports on sanitary administration, including:

• pp 149-227. Statistics and returns for the North-Western Provinces, showing deaths in towns; by sex; comparison 1867-1866; by Caste; by diseases of the classes Zymotic (epidemic, endemic or communicable), Cachetic (constitutional), Manarganici (local), Developmental, Thonatici (violent diseases or death); by sex and age; plus tabulated deaths by fever; cholera; smallpox; dysentery and diarrhoea; leprosy; and animals

pp 229-51. Communication of W A Green, Inspector General of Hospitals in the Lower Provinces, regarding the enquiry and enclosing: forms of the monthly sanitation report; charitable dispensary report; monthly jail returns; plus copy report of the Meterological Committee of the Lower Provinces on the procedures for recording meteorological observations.

pp 253-77. Communication by R Simon, Secretary to the Government of the North-Western Provinces, reporting on sanitary measures there and enclosing annual reports from several districts and divisions on measures adopted for sanitary arrangements, plus resolution thereon by the Government of the North-Western Provinces.

pp 279-83. Communication by C Grant, Central Provinces, enclosing report by Dr Townsend, Sanitary Commissioner.

pp 285-88. Major MacDonald, Government of Bombay, submits report by the Sanitary Commissioner, Bombay, on the progress made in sanitatation in that Presidency.

pp 289-94. Colonel Albert Fytche, Burma, regarding the enquiry and enclosing sample forms for statistical returns.

pp 295-306. R Simson, North-Western Provinces, enclosing memorandum by the Sanitary Commissioner regarding the enquiry, plus abstracts of reports on the santitation of towns and villages for 1867.

pp 308-416. Report by J L Ranking, Sanitary Commissioner, Madras, regarding the enquiry; duties of the Inspector General of Hospitals; rules for barrack construction and layout; the sanitation of barracks; hospital construction; the regulation of bazaars and native dwellings; role of the Sanitary Police; precautions taken against epidemic disease;and registration of deaths.

Plus appendices, including reports on Sanitation from the Military Department; enclosed related correspondence regarding barrack construction and conservancy; measures for the prevention of cholera; and hospital management.

pp 387-416. Memorandum on the propagation and prevention of Asiatic Cholera by the Edinburgh, Senior Physician to the Bristol Infirmary; memorandum regarding recreation, gardens and gymnasia; proposals regarding the construction of barracks for European soldiers and hospitals for European and Native troops; plus table showing expenditure on military works for 1864-1868.

pp 417-20. Correspondence regarding the above.