The measures adopted on a report of the Medical Board that much of the sickness prevailing among prisoners in the Madura Jail was owing to a change of diet
1373: Correspondence regarding certain alterations proposed by Dr Dyer in the Dietary Scale of Emigrants and other arrangements on the voyage from India to the West Indies
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the following Public letters received from India: No.60 of 1862, dated 30 July 1862 No.63 of 1862, dated 6 October 1862 Also included is a report, dated 16th October 1861, by Dr Payne, Medical Superintendent, Emigration to Mauritius, on the management and diet...
A Memorandum on the Dietaries of Labouring Prisoners in Indian Jails by Surgeon-Major T R Lewis; papers and resolutions on the subject of jail diet in connection with the mortality of prisoners in Indian jails
Coolie Emigration to the Colonies; [1] Alleged receipt by employees of emigration depots of a monetary consideration for each coolie embarked [2] Surveys of fittings of vessels [3] Proposed additions to the instructions of surgeons of coolie ships (vaccination and diet sheets)