Statistics of medical men and women in the service of the Government of India
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pp 713-24. Communications to be forwarded to the Secretary of State supplying statistics on the numbers of medical officers in India, and the proportion that hold qualifications recognised in the UK; with summary table on p 723.
Proposal to hold a scientific investigation into the nature, pathology, and causation of the fever prevailing in the Burdwan and Hooghly Districts
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Correspondence regarding the investigation proposed by the Government of Bengal. Includes an extract from and discussion of Nicholas Pike, "An American in Mauritius", Friend of India (1873) and his description of the role of microscopic and parasitic plants in the development of fevers.
Proposed establishment of a large central factory at Bombay for the manufacture of drugs and their supply to all hospitals and dispensaries not entirely maintained by the state
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pp 843-68. Correspondence regarding the proposal of Dr F N MacNamara, enclosing reports by Macnamara providing details of the drugs and chemicals purchased for stores in India for Feb-Mar 1889, with the price paid and market price; plus opinion of the Home Department, deprecating the adoption of ...
Proposed appointment of a Scientific Commission to investigate the causes and cure of malaria and the deputation to India of Dr C W Daniels to aid in the investigation
Removal to England of an Assistant District Superintendent of Police in the Punjab, who has become insane
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pp 435-55. Correspondence between the Government of India and the Punjab regarding arrangements for the patient, plus extracts from case books and copy letters written by the patient to local officials.