Parliamentary Papers, Volume 33H.M. Stationery Office, 1865 - Bills, Legislative |
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1,000 of Strength 2nd Battalion abscess Acuta admissions and deaths admissions into hospital Admitted Aldershot amount Annual Ratio appear Appendix Army attacked average strength barracks Bengal Bermuda black troops Bombay Brigade camp carbonic acid cause Change of Climate cholera Chronica Circulatory classes of diseases Command corps cubic feet Depôt Battalions Diarrhea Diathetic Diseases Died Dietic Digestive Diseases of Nutrition dysentery England Enthetic epidemic following Table George's hepatitis Household Cavalry increase Infantry Inspected Inspector-General Integumentary INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM Ireland Island island Kowloon Locomotive Madras Mean Strength Medical Officers Miasmatic Diseases military months native Nervous System Ophthalmia Orchitis Paroxysmal Peshawur prevalence proportion recruits Rejected Respiratory Rheumatism Royal Artillery Royal Engineers sanitary sent home sickness and mortality soldiers stations Table shows Total town Troops serving Tubercular Urinary vegetables ventilation West India Regiment white troops Windward and Leeward yellow fever دو دو دو وو
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Page 619 - The others may also be sent back, on condition of not again bearing arms during the continuance of the war. Evacuations, together with the persons under whose directions they take place, shall be protected by an absolute neutrality. ART. VII. A distinctive and uniform flag shall be adopted for hospitals, ambulances and evacuations. It must, on every occasion, be accompanied by the national flag.
Page 618 - ... Art. I. — Ambulances and military hospitals shall be acknowledged to be neuter, and, as such, shall be protected and respected by belligerents so long as any sick or wounded may be therein. Such neutrality shall cease if the ambulances or hospitals should be held by a military force.
Page 619 - In witness whereof his Excellency the Ambassador of the French Republic at the Court of His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, duly authorized for that purpose, have signed the present Declaration and have affixed thereto their seals. Done at London, in duplicate, the 8th day of April, 1904.
Page 618 - ART. V. Inhabitants of the country who may bring help to the wounded shall be respected, and shall remain free. The generals of the belligerent Powers shall make it their care to inform the inhabitants of the appeal addressed to their humanity, and of the neutrality which will be the consequence of it. Any wounded man entertained and taken care of in a house shall be considered as a protection thereto. Any inhabitant who shall have entertained wounded men in his house shall be exempted from the quartering...
Page 618 - IV. As the equipment of military hospitals remains subject to the laws of war, persons attached to such hospitals cannot, in withdrawing, carry away any articles but such as are their private property. Under the same circumstances an ambulance shall, on the contrary, retain its equipment.
Page 618 - Under such circumstances, when these persons shall cease from their functions, they shall be delivered by the occupying army to the outposts of the enemy.
Page 325 - For producing malaria, it appears to be requisite that there should be a surface capable of absorbing moisture, and that this surface should be flooded and soaked with water, and then dried; and the higher the temperature, and the quicker the drying process, the more plentiful and the more virulent (more virulent probably because more plentiful) is the poison that is evolved.
Page 619 - The High Contracting Powers have agreed to communicate the present Convention to those Governments which have not found it convenient to send Plenipotentiaries to the International Conference at Geneva, with an invitation to accede thereto; the Protocol is for that purpose left open.
Page 436 - The right way to dispose of town sewage is to apply it continuously to the land and it is by such application that the pollution of rivers can be avoided.
Page 436 - Finally, on the basis of the above conclusions, we further beg leave to express to your Lordships that, in our judgment, the following two principles are established for legislative application : — " First, that wherever rivers are polluted by a discharge of town sewage into them, the towns may reasonably be required to desist from causing that public nuisance. "Second, that where town populations are injured or endangered in health by a retention of cesspool matter among them, the towns may reasonably...