Bacon fat, nutritive value of, 79 Baids, or native doctors, 126 Baking powders, ingredients of, 59 Bamboo matting, use of, for building purposes, 5 Bancroft, Dr., 100 Barracks in India, advisability of protecting against mosquitoes, 122 Basel Mission, Cannanore, fabrics manufactured by, 27, 28 Beef tea, 62 Bengali, 14, 145 Benger’s food, 149, 154 Bhindi, the, 58 _Bhisti_ (Mahomedan water carriers) unclean methods of, 38-39; character of, 39-40 Bhraman, 138 Bile, functions of, and relation to dysentery, 143 _Bilharzia_, 184 Bismuth, salicylate of, administration of, in infantile diarrhœa, 151 Blackwater fever, 127 Bladder worm, 183-184 Blood-worm disease, 90, 93, 97, 183 Blue pill, 150 Boer felt hats, 170-171 Boils-- Perchloride of mercury lotion a preventive against, 178 Prickly heat as sequelæ of, 177 Bombay, 12 Bottle feeding of infants, danger of, in the tropics, 151 Brand’s extract, 142 Bread, 59 _British Medical Journal_ cited, 74 Buffalo milk, butter made from, 52 Bugs, 115 Bungalow, Indian, _see under_ India. Burglars, precautions against, 68-69 Burmah, 114; plan of houses in, 5; protection against leeches in riding, 29 Bushire, Subsabad Residency at, 8 Butter, danger of germs in, 51-52; making at home, 52; buffalo milk for, 52; tinned, 52
Calcutta, 12, 65, 123 Calomel, administration of, in heatstroke, 176 Campagna, Italian, 119 Camps, choice of site for, 87; difficulties as to conservancy, 87-88; water supply for, 88 Canal irrigation-- Dangers of, 109 Officials of, Government, protection of houses of, against mosquitoes, suggested, 122 Cancer, 109 Cannanore, Basel Mission at, fabrics manufactured by, 27, 28 Cape Colony-- Sunstroke in, rarity of, 29 Tape-worm parasites in meat at, 55 Ticks, protection against, in riding, 28 Carbonic acid-- Action of, on cholera germs, 48, 133 Compressed, supply of, in steel cylinders, 47 Castor oil, administration of, in malaria, 127-128; in dysentery, 147; in infantile diarrhœa, 151, 154 Castor oil shrub, antipathy of mosquitoes to, 116 Cawnpore-- Tent manufacture at, 84 “Twilled lining” manufactured at, 27 Water supply of, 37 “Cawnpore tent club hat,” 30, 169 Ceilings, lath and plaster, non-employment of, in India, 17 Ceiling cloths, defects of, 16-17 Celli, Prof. A., plan of, for wire gauze protection against mosquitoes, 118-121 Centipedes, 22, 115 Cgaleka campaign, 57 _Chang_ houses, 5-6 Charcoal, properties of, as fuel for cooking purposes, 64 Cheese, 52-53, 79 Children in the Tropics-- Clothing of, 33-34, 117 Feeding of, 76 _et seq._ Hill stations, advisability of sending to, 79-81 House accommodation of, 6, 10 Infants, _see that title_ Treatment of, 81-82, 171 China, washing of clothes in, 24 Chittagong-- Health of European residents in, 2 Houses in, 2 Chloral hydrate, subcutaneous injection of, in cholera cases, 141 Chlorodyne, danger of, in dysentery, 146 Cholera-- Contraction of, through food fouled by flies, 48 Conveyance of, 35-36 Discharges in, infection from, 142 Germ of, destruction of, in wells, 42; prolonged action of CO₂, on, 48; conditions of development of, 132; killing, by boiling water, 133 Infection, risk of, 132, 140, 142 Melons causing, popular fallacy as to, 58-59 Nursing of cases, precautions to be taken in, 140 Preventive measures against, 134-139 Symptoms of, 140-141 Treatment, 141-142 “Cholera belt,” 144, 145 Chrysanthemum, unopened flowers of, mosquitoes destroyed by burning, 114 Clay, beaten, as roofing material, 18 Clerestory windows, 8 Climate, influence of, in development of mosquitoes, 99 Clothing in the Tropics-- Children, of, 33-34 European, 25 Evening dress in India, 28; arranging, to protect against mosquitoes, 117-118 Foot-wear, 31-32 Head-dress, suitable, 29-30 Principles of, 22 Protection against mosquitoes, arranging as, 117-118 Riding dress, 28-29 Starched materials, unsuitability of, for hot climates, 26 Underclothes, 22-23, 27-28 Washing of, 23-25 Women’s, 33 Cod-liver oil, 79 Cold baths, 67-68 “Comforters,” baby’s, danger of, 74 Conservancy-- Difficulties as to, in camp life, 87-88 Oriental plans of, 134; round worm disease due to lack of, 182 Constipation, danger of, in tropical climates, 175 Consumption, 74, 109 Cooking, need for, and economy of good cooking, 62-63 Cork as material for hats in India, 169 Cornices, 15 Corsets, inappropriateness of, in hot climates, 33 Corrugated iron as roofing material, 6, 17-18 Cows-- Condition of, in Indian villages, 50 Milk, drawback of, as infants’ food in India, 153 Cucumbers, 58, 136 _Culex_-- Breathing arrangements of, 96 Characteristics of, 102-103 Eggs of, figure of, 95 Larvæ of, 98 “Culinary Jottings from Madras” (Wyvern), 54; _quoted_, 55 Curry as food for children, 76