Papers regarding the Decentralization Commission's Report; proposed abolition of the service of Civil Assistant Surgeons; pay of Civil Assistant Surgeons officiating as Civil Surgeons
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pp 469-94. Communications received from the Presidency and Provincial Governments regarding the report of the Decentralization Commission on the administration of local hospitals, and on the proposed abolition of provincial Civil Assistant Surgeons, to be replaced with private practitioners.
pp 03-04. Report by J Fairweather, Sanitary Commissioner with the Punjab, on an outbreak of cholera at Delhi. Provides daily admission and death statistics for 29 Nov-07 Dec 1871, and speculates on the cause and transmission of the cholera.
Proposed international commission on the Asiatic plague
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pp 203-04. Correspondence regarding the Austro-Hungarian proposal to establish an International Medical Commission of Enquiry into the outbreak of plague at Mesopotamia.
Improvement of the sanitary condition of Pachmarhi
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pp 801-07. Reports from the Quarter Master General in India; the Commanding Officer in the Sauger District; the Special Committee of Enquiry into the causes of malaria; and the Surgeon General and Principal Medical Officer of British Forces in India.