Report by Drs T R Lewis and D D Cunningham on the work done by them during the quarter ending 30th June 1877
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p 367. Report on the "arrangements for conducting systematic observations... to ascertain the leading chemical changes taking place in soil-air at varying distances from the surface of the ground".
p 375. Telegram received from Bombay: "Nixon telegraphs - Baghdad 12th. Ottoman Board of Health have this day abolished quarantine in Turkish Arabia. Inform Government of India."
pp 377-87. Colonel J P Nixon, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, forwards reports received from Surgeon Major W H Colvill, Civil Surgeon at Baghdad, plus memoranda of proceedings of the Board of Health at Teheran [Tehran], submitted by Sir Joseph R L Dickson. The reports include details about the...
Proposed extension of Clause 7, Section 19 of Act XXII of 1864 to the Cantonment of Dalhousie and its neighbourhood
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pp 389-93. Correspondence regarding the difficulties in extending the provisions of the act to cover female labourers employed on public works in the vicinity of the soldiers' barracks.
p 213. Government of India inform the Secretary of State that plague has broken out in Baghdad, and that quarantines have been established at Busreh [Basreh] and Kifri.
Crowded state of the mail steamers belonging to the British India Steam Navigation Company when carrying Indian passengers
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pp 225-27. Correspondence regarding alleged overcrowding, plus List of British India Steam Navigation Company's Steamers that arrived from the Persian Gulf during the year 1876-77, showing ship name, tonnage, and the number of deck passengers.