Requests for medical aid in Calcutta, and for the establishment of a hospital at Alipore
Scope & Content:
Provision of medical aid for indigent victims of the floods of 1833 who had assembled at Rasapagla and other places in Calcutta - request of the inhabitants of Alipore and Kidderpore that a hospital and dispensary be established at Alipore, (Vol 3)
Regarding the issuance of medicines from dispensaries; and legislation for chemists
Scope & Content:
Free issue of medicines from the Company's dispensaries prohibited; in favour of a legislative enactment to prevent unqualified persons from practising as chemists and druggists in Madras.
Papers regarding a draft Act for the administration of justice and collection of revenue in Colaba
Scope & Content:
Includes a printed copy of Act No.XVII of 1844, An Act for the Administration of Justice and Collections of the Revenue in the Territory which formed the State of Colaba, and which has lapsed to the British Government
Report of Dr William Russell on the progress of vaccination in the Bengal Presidency in 1815 and the first quarter of 1816 - favourable testimony by Government to the services of Dr Russell as Superintendent General of Vaccination (includes returns of persons vaccinated, pp 6-9).
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes, which are enclosures to an extract of a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 25 July 1849. A copy of this letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2343/123024. The item re...
Establishment of a dispensary in Black Town for the sale of drugs and medicines
Scope & Content:
Establishment of a dispensary in Black Town for the sale of drugs and medicines. Assistant Surgeon William Eugene Edward Conwell is appointed Superintendent.
Reports on the administration of the Native Hospitals at Calcutta, Murshidabad and Benares 1816-17
Scope & Content:
Reports on the administration of the Native Hospitals at Calcutta, Murshidabad and Benares - favourable testimony to the merits of Dr John Shoolbred, the Surgeon to the Calcutta Hospital (includes returns of patients, pp 8-9, 22-23, 45-48, 56-57).
