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THE CHOLERA AT MALTA: THE 100TH REGIMENT ENCAMPED ON THE GLACIS OF FORT MANOEL, 1865. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
The Cholera at Malta: the 100th Regiment encamped on the glacis of Fort Manoel, 1865. Engraving of a sketch by Captain Cecil Lyon. 'This regiment, under the command of Major H. Cook, was moved from Lower St. Elmo Barracks on the 26th of July, when, owing to several cases of cholera having occurred amongst the men, his Excellency the Governor, Sir Henry Storks, with his usual foresight, ordered the regiment to be placed at once under canvas. The result of this change has been most beneficial, no fatal case having occurred for the last month. The road in the centre of the camp leading to the marquee used for the officers' mess, as well as the jetty [in the foreground], was constructed by the labour of the troops themselves. The building on the right is Fort Manoel, the head-quarters of the 8th (the King's) Regiment, and those on the left, and which are situated on the Valetta side of the quarantine harbour, are the Floriana suburbs and the barracks of the 4th Regiment. The lower range of building directly above the camp is the Lazaretto, or quarantine station, where persons arriving from infected ports undergo their prescribed term of confinement before they are allowed to enter the town or to have any intercourse with the population'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865. The Cholera at Malta: the 100th Regiment encamped on the glacis of Fort Manoel, 1865. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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INSPECTION OF FOREIGN CATTLE AT THE METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, 1865. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Inspection of foreign cattle at the Metropolitan Cattle Market, [Copenhagen-fields, London], 1865. 'The importance of exercising a strict supervision over the sanitary state of these cattle...has lately occupied much of the public attention...Mr. Gibbins [chairman of the Markets Committee, Corporation of London] and Mr. Rudkin...[inspected] the cattle market at Islington, and visited the several slaughter-houses. Here a number of cows were found in a very bad state of disease, and they were immediately seized and condemned by the officer. The market itself was also inspected, and the attention of the inspector was called to about forty cows which had been sent to the market from a dairy at the west end of London, among which were several in a diseased condition. The inspector, acting under the powers vested in him, ordered the whole number to be immediately destroyed, so as to prevent the spread of the disease. The Markets Committee have made a report on the desirability of establishing hospitals or sanatoriums...to which diseased cattle may be removed...[and] may there receive proper medical treatment with a view to their ultimate recovery. There is a strong feeling among the cattle salesmen...in favour of the establishment of such places'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865. Inspection of foreign cattle at the Metropolitan Cattle Market, 1865. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609487155
A STAMPEDE OF JACKALS THROUGH THE ENVIRONS OF CALCUTTA, 1864. CREATOR: MASON JACKSON.
A stampede of jackals through the environs of Calcutta, 1864. 'A walk through Calcutta about midnight reveals to the European stranger many curious sights and sounds...[Outside the] ordinary dwellings and shops...are the owners sleeping on charpoys (very primitive bedsteads) in the open fronts, answering for the verandah of the houses...On every side are hundreds of tall cocoanut palms...As he turns the corner of the street a rushing sound directs his attention to a moving mass of living creatures...a piercing shriek, like that of some wretch in the direst extremity of terror, rises upon his ear; this is followed by another and another, until the whole pack is in full chorus. These are the jackals, the scavengers of Calcutta...the jackal is a great coward, and, unless he can attack with every advantage on his side, he will slink away from a grown person, or even a boy with a stick in his hand...Very young children, however, have been carried off and devoured by the pack; and there have been instances of a rabid jackal running amuck through the crowded bazaars in broad daylight and committing fearful havoc amongst the naked legs of the natives: for their bite, when the animal is in this state, produces the worst form of hydrophobia'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. A stampede of jackals through the environs of Calcutta, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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PERUVIAN BARK TREE PLANTATIONS IN THE NEILGHERRY HILLS, INDIA..., 1862. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Peruvian bark tree plantations in the Neilgherry Hills, India: Sir William Denison, Governor of Madras, planting the first tree in a new plantation, 1862. 'Mr. Clements Markham, of the India Office, was intrusted...with the duty of superintending all the necessary arrangements for the collection of cinchona plants and seeds in South America, and for their introduction into India...Mr. Markham...penetrated into the forests of Caravaya, in Southern Peru, which had never before been trodden by any European...The supply of bark from South America was every year becoming more and more precarious, owing to improvident and reckless felling of the trees. The introduction of the cinchona-trees into India had, therefore, become a matter of the greatest importance. Not only India, but the whole civilised world, will derive incalculable benefit from this undertaking...Our Engraving represents [Sir William Denison] in the act of planting the first plant in one of the new cinchona plantations, accompanied by...Mr. M'lvor, the Superintendent of Cinchona Plantations (in the foreground holding a spade). In the background is another thriving cinchona plantation...and to the right is a nursery of young cinchona plants'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862. Peruvian bark tree plantations in the Neilgherry Hills, India..., 1862. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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