The item consists of copies of correspondence enclosed with a political letter from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the Court of Directors of the East India Company. The item refers to an update by Lieutenant J Buckle, Commander of the Company ship Euphrates, on the activity of Ibrahim Pach...
This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, minutes, and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; the East India Company Court of Directors. It i...
This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, minutes, and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The main correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant Arnold Burrows Kemball, Assistant Resident in the Persia...
The item consists of three letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 1 October 1846-31 March 1847. The letters refer to attempts to suppress the ‘slave trade’ [trade in enslaved people] in the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat’s dominions and on the Arabian C...
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 31 August 1847. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2238/112322, alongside details...
The item contains two Political Letters and one extract of a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors. It is the first in a series of five items relating to the 'slave trade' [trade in enslaved people] in the Persian Gulf and on the Arabian Peni...
The item consists of seven letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors. The letters refer to general updates from the Persian Gulf and surrounding regions between August 1852 and February 1853. It is the first in a series of sixteen items on events in the G...
Appointment of a Committee to consider the best method of improving the state of public hygiene in Madras City
Scope & Content:
Reports of the Chief Engineer (pp 39-57) and of the Committee (pp 58-70); failure of the contract system; the Scavenging Department placed once more under the Superintendent of Roads; priority given to cleaning the drains in Black Town and suburbs.
Sanitary improvements in the town of Akyab [Sittwe] in response to the great sickness which prevailed there in 1843-44
Scope & Content:
Contains reports by Major A Bogle, Lieutenant H Hopkinson, and Assistant Surgeon C Archer on the cause of the sickness and measures to prevent its recurrence.
