SANITARY WORK IN INDIA.

Sanitary Reforms in India

The reconstitution of a special Imperial Sanitary Department is undoubted]}7 an important step as emphasising the determination of the Indian Government to pay special attention to sanitary matters and obtain the best available advice regarding subjects affecting public health. The best feature of the new order of things is, I think, the resolve to organise research laboratories in the chief ce...

Report on Sanitary Improvements in India

We wish to draw the particular attention of our readers to a volume which lias been recently issued from the India Office, entitled;?" Report on Measures adopted for Sanitary Improvements in India, from June 1869 to June 1870, together with Abstracts of Sanitary Reports for 1868, forwarded from Bengal, Madras, and Bombay." This is a sanitary multum in parvo, and should be in the hands of every ...

The Duties of Sanitary Inspectors in India

on its production. The first part consists in an enumeration of the duties of a Sanitary Inspector and an explanation of each duty. Part II is entitled " Sanitary Facts " and explains what is meant by night-soil, urine, rubbish, cesspools and open drains. Then comes a short description of various diseases as plague, t}'phoid, small-pox, etc. Part III gives a short account of the characters of g...

India needs a great sanitary awakening

The Army Sanitary Commission on Typhoid Fever in India

last. At the same time a report by Surgeon-General J. Kerr-Innes on the prevalence and causation of typhoid fever among European troops in the Bengal Command in 1876 was submitted for review, and the Commission deliberated on both documents simultaneously, and submitted to the Secretary of State for India a memorandum containing the result of their deliberations. The memorandum does not advance...