Report on Measures Adopted for Sanitary Improvements in IndiaH.M. Stationery Office, 1871 |
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1,000 of Strength acid admissions Admitted Ahmednuggur amount annual Apoplexy appears Army Sanitary Commission attacked Average Strength Bangalore barracks BENGAL PRESIDENCY Bombay Bryden Calcutta cantonments causes cent Central Provinces cholera climate Cornish Cuningham Daily Sick death rate death-rate deaths from cholera Delirium tremens Depôt Diarrhoea Died discharge districts drainage drains Dysentery epidemic European troops facts fatal favourable Government of India Hepatitis important impure invaliding irrigation jails June latrines Lock Hospitals Madras Presidency Medical Officer MEMORANDUM mille of strength months Municipal Native troops North-Western Provinces number of deaths occurred outbreak Peshawur Phthisis population prevalence prisoners proportion Punjab quarter rainfall RATIO PER MILLE regarding Regiment registered remarks returns Royal Artillery Sanitary Blue Book Sanitary Commissioner sanitary condition sanitary improvements Sanitary Report season Secunderabad sewage sewers sickness and mortality Small-pox soldiers statement stations statistics subsoil suffered total number town Trichinopoly Trimulgherry vaccination venereal disease villages water supply women
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Seite 212 - Commission to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for India in Council, that...
Seite 241 - That the present method of drawing and distributing water be discontinued wherever practicable. That all water used for drinking purposes be filtered, or otherwise purified. 9. That all future barracks and hospitals be erected on raised basements, with the air circulating under the floors, and that, in all existing barracks and hospitals, the floors be raised as much as possible, and a free current of air allowed to pass beneath them. 10. That all new barracks be constructed to hold no more than...
Seite 205 - Cunningham's own conclusions from his enquiry are, — il (1st.) That with the present extremely imperfect data, it is quite premature to decide exclusively in favour of any one theory regarding the localization of cholera. " (2nd.) That several of the existing theories may really involve partial truths, and that they only become incompatible with one another when insisted on as absolute and entire explanations. " (3rd.) That although in the present...
Seite 276 - This subject was forcibly dwelt on by the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Indian Army, but the evil appears to exist as extensively as ever.
Seite 154 - The construction and repair of hospitals, dispensaries, lunatic asylums, choultries, markets, tanks, and wells ; the payment of all charges connected with the objects for which such buildings have been constructed ; the training and employment of vaccinators and medical practitioners, the sanitary inspection of towns and villages, the cleansing of the roads, streets, and tanks, and any other local works of public utility calculated to promote the health, comfort, or convenience of the people.
Seite 199 - Besides all this, Mr. Herbert undertook in 1859 the chairmanship of the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Indian Army. Other work of his in connection with the Army is well known ; and some of it — such as his Fortification Scheme — did not endure, but these matters do not concern us here. His measures for the health and wellbeing of the soldiers were what Miss Nightingale was interested in ; and this joint work...
Seite 281 - ... Officers of Customs ; — To all Masters of Ships ;— • And to all others whom it may concern. WHEREAS the Lords of Her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, by an Order bearing date the 29th day of July 1871, after reciting certain provisions of an Act passed in the Sixth year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, chapter seventy-eight, and of the Sanitary Act, 1866...
Seite 214 - I am directed to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for India in Council, that Dr.
Seite 247 - Yon may judge of the daily quantity visibly by the fact, that forty-five million gallons would be delivered in twenty-four hours by a brook nine feet wide and three feet deep, running at the rate of three feet per second, or a little more than two miles per hour ; and three sewers, of three feet diameter and of a proper fall, will suffice for the removal (for distribution) of the same volume of refuse or soil water.
Seite 200 - April, 1862. 1 . Officers Commanding Divisions, Stations, &c., will make themselves thoroughly acquainted with the ground in the neighbourhood of their stations to the extent of 20 miles, with a view to at once selecting sites for encampments in the event of cholera appearing, and care will be taken to ensure these places being always kept in a fit state for occupation by troops, and with a sufficient supply of wholesome water available on each. 2. The officers of the...