Difference of opinion between the Collector of Malabar and the Civil Surgeon of Calicut as to the classification of deaths during 1875-1876
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p. 235. Regarding a disease which the Collector identified as cholera, but which the Civil Surgeon recorded under the heading 'bowel complaints' in the annual reports. Government of India express their view that Madras had suffered from a particularly bad cholera epidemic that year.
Plague deaths at Baghdad and Hillah, and the lifting of quarantine at Persian ports
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pp 379-80. Telegrams from Colonel J P Nixon, Political Resident at Turkish Arabia, reporting plague cases and deaths, and the lifting of the quarantine in Persian ports.
Report of the Health Officer of Calcutta for the second quarter of 1877
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pp 475-81. Report of Surgeon Major Arthur J Payne, Health Officer, Calcutta. Includes decennial statements of births and deaths for the second quarter of 1877.
Report on the 1876 cholera outbreak at Peshawar District
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pp 967-69. Memorandum of the Army Sanitary Commission on a report on cholera in the Peshawar District during 1876, by Lieutenant A F Barrow, Officiating Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General, Peshawar District.
Report of the Land Quarantine Committee regarding rules to be observed on the outbreak of smallpox and cholera in Cantonments
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pp 971-1025. Gore Ouseley, President of the Land Quarantine Committee, forwards the report on the question of land quarantine as a protection against cholera in India, comprising: seriatim result of enquiries and deliberations; copy of the evidence presented by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commission...
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...