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Supplement to the Indian Journal of Medical Research Proceedings of the Third All-India Sanitary Conference Held at Lucknow Papers January 19th to 27th 1914

1914

The heading of the 53rd chapter of his great treatise on the Movement and measurement of waters " is " How with the running waters we ought to carry the earth of the mountains into the valleys so as to render them fertile and to purify the air." And for the last five centuries the intelligence of the Italian engineers has been directed to forcing each stream to turn the swamps which it had itsel [...] In other words it includes the lowering of the level of the water and the raising of the level of the land. [...] Then after a brief account of the medical investigation of the disease ending with the discovery of the mosquito as its cause it is shown how all the conditions empirically ascertained are exactly those which favour the prevalence of the petiferous insect and how the new school of medicine " welcomes the Boni/icazione of which the deposit of river silt is a main feature as the " sovereign [...] Many factors have to be considered—the slope of the ground ; the character of the silt ; the depth of the required deposit ; the time allowed for the completion of the work ; the drainage system of the locality. [...] That alluvial soils have been deposited by the drainage from the hills of Central and South India both on the sides and at the mouths of the rivers as well as along the western base of the mountain wall that receives the brunt of the slimmer monsoon.
technology medicine science
Pages
227
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120195
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iii unknown view
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Report on the Control and Utilization of Rivers and Drainage for the Fertilization of Land and Mitigation of Malaria
1-26 Edward Buck view
Report on the Utilization of Silt in Italy.*
27-xxiv C.H. Hutton view
Supplementary Note to the “Report on Utilization of Silt in Italy.”
89-91 C.H. Hutton view
Report on the Colmate Di Monte “of Italy”
92-x F. Clayton view
A Short Note on the Silting up of the Bistupur Bhil at Berhampore
99-102 W.W. Clemesha view
Drainage and Sanitation in Rural Areas in the Madras Presidency
103-115 M. Rao view
Rural Sanitation in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh
116-123 Sri Bahadur view
Village Sanitation
124-127 K.R. Godbole view
Medical Inspection of Schools and School Hygiene
128-132 Ganesh Sahasrabudhe view
The Unhygienic and the Insanitary Condition of Boys 'and Girls' Schools in Cities
133-138 Gopal Bhandari view
Education of Teachers and Children in Hygiene
139-140 H.G. Webb view
The Prevalence of Flies in Delhi and their Reduction
141-147 A.W. Young view
Pail Latrines and a Plea for the Sweeper
148-ii Geo Robertson view
Note on the Nasik System of Pitting Nightsoil to Ripen it for Sale to Cultivators
151-153 J.L. Marjoribanks view
Note on the Pitting of Night-Soil and Manure in Private Compounds
154-155 J.L. Marjoribanks view
A Short Note on Incineration in India
156-158 H.G. Webb view
Proposals for the Formation of a Women’s Domestic Sanitary Service for India
159-161 A.M. Benson view
Nurse District Visitors in Madras City
162-165 P.L. Moore view
Infant Mortality
166-171 S. Rozdon view
High Temperature as a Cause of Infantile Mortality
172-186 W.H. Kenrick view

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