The prevalence of organic disease of the spleen as a test for detecting malarious localities in hot climates : being the report of a committee assembled by general orders Commander-in-Chief, dated the 16th September 1854.

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1868
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Credit: The prevalence of organic disease of the spleen as a test for detecting malarious localities in hot climates : being the report of a committee assembled by general orders Commander-in-Chief, dated the 16th September 1854. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ASSEMBLED BT GENERAL ORDERS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, DATED 16th SEPTEMBER, 1845. DNDEB INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA IN COUNCIL. ■ The conduct of the investigation entrusted to our Com- mittee, and detailed in the annexed General Order, involved the necessity of personally examining the districts irrigated by the existing canals, and such other localities as seemed best suited for a fair comparison with them. For this pur- pose, the Committee met at Kurnaul on the 30th November, 1845, and proceeding southward had made considerable pro- gress in the examination of the irrigated districts west of the Jumna, when they were summoned to military duty with the army of the Sutlej. On the 1st November, 1846, the enquiry was resumed, and has continued without further interruption. 2nd. The route followed by our Committee may be traced on the accompanying sketch map. It was prescribed in some measure by the official engagements of Major Baker, whose inspection of the canals, &c., was necessarily performed in conjunction with his duties as a member of the Committee. It will be seen, that we have examined the irrigated and unirrigated districts on both banks of the Jumna, that we have visited the Nujufghur jheels, and have followed the proposed course of the Ganges canal for 83 miles, viz., from Hurdwar to the latitude of Meemt. In the course of this