Extracts from the topography and vital statistics of Calcutta : embracing observations on these subjects formed at different periods, and officially submitted to the local authorities / by F.P. Strong.

  • Strong, F. P. (Francis Pemble)
Date:
[1849?-1852]
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Credit: Extracts from the topography and vital statistics of Calcutta : embracing observations on these subjects formed at different periods, and officially submitted to the local authorities / by F.P. Strong. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EXTRACTS FROM THE TOPOGRAPHY AND VITAL STATISTICS OP CALCUTTA, EMBRACING OBSERVATIONS ON THESE SUBJECTS FORMED AT DIFFERENT PERIODS, AND OFFICIALLY SUBMITTED TO THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, BY F. P. STRONG, SURGEON, 2I-P ERGUNNAHS. TO THOS. SMITH, Esq. Third Member of the Medical Board and Superintending Surgeon. Art. VII.—Correspondence connected with the Topography of Calcutta and its vicinity. Communicated by F. P. Strong, Esq. Civil Surgeon, Calcutta Sudder, dc. August 29th, 1837. Sir,—In answer to your circular of July 29th, forwarding for my perusal a letter from the Secretary to the Medical Board to your address, expressing the desire of the Board to afford every practicable assistance to such gentlemen as may be engaged in drawing up topographical accounts of stations in your division ; I have the honor to forward copies of several papers, written some years ago, upon this city, its suburbs, the salt marshes, and the Sundar- bans, south-east to the sea ; and to which I have added notes in the margin in further elucidation. I also have annexed other papers more lately written, bearing upon the same subject, and a letter to Lord William Bentinck writ- ten by a committee which was formed of gentlemen in the suburbs in consequence of my first communication upon the subject in 1828. A small map shewing the bearing of the different parts alluded to is appended, in which Mr. Tassin has, at my request, painted the Salt Lake of a bluish color, A