Reports on the Cinchona Plantations in the Nilgiri Hills, and American India-rubber plants at Nilambur
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pp 119-36. Despatch from the Government of Madras, enclosing proceedings regarding the work of Robert Cross. Includes: Report by Robert Cross on the Dodabetta Plantation, and the cultivation of the Crown Condaminea or Loxa bark, and the Pitayo bark; and reports on the Naduvatam and Pykara Hook...
Proposal to establish a manufactory in the Nilgiris for the preparation of quinine by private enterprise
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p 347. Despatch from the Secretary of State to the Government of Madras regarding the proposal, advising that no further delay should occur and stipulating concession terms.
Explanation of Surgeon-Major Borah regarding the transfer of moribund patients from the Tezpur Lunatic Asylum to the Charitable Dispensary
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pp 15-27. Correspondence regarding the adoption of the practice at the Tezpur Asylum, and of the practice of excluding the deaths of transferred patients from the Asylum's returns. Includes report by the Superintendent of the Asylum providing details of cases sent to the Charitable Dispensary for...
Proposed abolition of one of the three appointments of Superintendent of Vaccination and Deputy Sanitary Commissioner in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, and the creation of an appointment of Resident Medical Officer at the Rangoon General Hospital
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pp 423-35. Correspondence. Includes brief history of the vaccination arrangements in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh.
Results of the trial fo the Buisson Bath treatment for rabies at Allahabad, Ferozepore and Sialkote
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pp 969-70. Fleet Paymaster F E Pirkis [who originally recommended the treatment to the Government of India] comments on the results of the treatment trials.