Report on the progress of vaccination in the Bengal Presidency
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Report by William Russell, the Superintendent General of Vaccination, on the progress of vaccination in the Bengal Presidency - extension of the practice to Persia and the East Indies (includes a return of the number of persons vaccinated in the Bengal Presidency in 1812, pp 42-43).
This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2174/105546. It is the twenty-eighth in a series of forty-five items on the Persian Gulf. The item co...
Proceedings connected with the operations of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of Calcutta
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Table of Contents. [pp 1-2] Extract of a General letter to the Court of Directors of the East India Company in the Revenue Department, dated 10th February 1834, regarding the operations of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society. [pp 3-7] Extracts from the Proceedings of the Bengal Govern...
Proceedings of the committee reporting on the cantonment at Dacca
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Proceedings of the committee assembled to report on the salubrity of the site of the present cantonment at Dacca to ascertain whether a better site could be found in the neighbourhood.
Observations on the subject of the large and increasing consumption of deleterious drugs at Murshidabad
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Observations of Dr A Kean, Assistant Surgeon at Murshidabad, on the subject of the large and increasing consumption of deleterious drugs, especially Ganja, and its baneful influence on the health and morals of the population of Murshidabad, and with special reference to his experience with the p...
Affairs of Mysore: question of the salary to be drawn by Assistant Surgeon J L Ranking, whose services had been placed at the disposal of the Commissioner - proposed reduction in the cost of the office Establishment of the Resident, Lieutenant Colonel Stokes - Abstract Returns and statements of ...
The item consists of five letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors. The letters refer to recent activities connected to the ‘slave trade’ [trade in enslaved people] in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, especially Judda [Juddah], Bahrein [Bahrain], Oman, and ...
Report on convalescent patients treated at the Nilgilri Hills by Robert Baikie, Thomas George Stephenson, and James Strachan
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Lists of Public Officers and Establishments in the Nilgiri Hills, with their salaries and allowances - returns of convalescent patients with remarks regarding same; plus reports by: Dr Robert Baikie on the beneficial climate etc. of the Nilgiris (pp 57-120) Dr Thomas George Stephenson (pp 121-6...
The collection of seeds, bulbs and tuberous roots from the Himalayan range, and the interchange of botanical products between England and India
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The collection contains the following papers: General Department letter, No.6 of 1838, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, dated Simla 16th August 1838, regarding an interchange between India and England of plants and vegetable productions indigenous in the one but rare or unk...
